Jinn of Current Events

Ralph Peters: Arab civilization has failed. Disguised in part by the trappings of oil wealth, the Middle East has become humanity's sinkhole, less promising, if richer, than Africa. But no facade of garish hotels in the hollow states that line the Persian Gulf, and no amount of full-page advertisements funded by the Saudi government, can hide the truth any longer: The Arab Middle East has become the world's first entirely parasitical culture; all it does is to imitate poorly, consume voraciously, spit hatred, export death and create nothing. One missing connection in this article is that the Arab failure is a direct consequence of adherence to the primitive, irrational creeds of Islam. 

One year ago, the precedent for de-baathification: Just as Germany was successfully de-Nazified, the challenge today is to "de-Baathify" Iraq. ... In 1945 the problems of postwar Germany were at first sight even more intractable than those of Iraq... A major difference is that today there is a second, active enemy that remains in place: the Islamofascists still ruling Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Pakistan, among other countries. When Nazi Germany was defeated, the heart of Nazism was destroyed. When Baathist Iraq was defeated, the second major campaign of World War IV was won, and an artery of state-sponsored terrorism was cut — but the heart of evil is beating elsewhere.