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man... i think the bitter pill for the arab world is called "the last 50 years." If they had taken a different tack in the 20th century... think of how peaceful and prosperous they could have been. Some of those countries possess incalculable wealth in natural resources, but their people are oppressed and sometimes live in squalor. Meanwhile, the clerics point their fingers at a wholly separate civilization across the ocean and their oligarchs frivolously stockpile billions. Historically they've morphed from a center of trade and learning to being insulated and myopic.
among all this violence and waste, i doubt the arabs take much notice to the bitterness of a few more homicide bombers.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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