Anyone taking a virtual tour of the Arab world is
bound to feel a sense of depression, if not despair, that might deepen into
neuralgia if they contemplate the scene for any length of time. Never since
World War II has it been in such a state of rudderless chaos, with states mired
in endless civil strife, inter-state wars, genocide orchestrated by fraternal
Arab states, growing repression in states that had at least a pretence of
representative government, not to speak of a Wahhabi monocult
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