Why no one (not even the U.S.) can fix the middle east.

[SunsetBengal]

(10-01-2015, 10:15 PM)Millhouse Wrote: Cant argue with any of that. An OSU professor told us 15sh years ago that a main reason many countries won't ever elevate to 1st world status is because of the government is ran by religion, like most middle east countries are. Turkey is a great example of getting closer and closer to 1st world status, as they are heavily Muslim, but they dont have a government ran by the Quran. If the rest of the middle east followed Turkey, many of the problems we see on the news over there wouldnt exist.

Off-topic but  I do wonder what that part of the world would be like if 1. Israel was placed somewhere like up in Canada, 2. if the cold war didn't occur, and 3. which is perhaps the most important is if there was no oil over there.

If #3 were true, they would be of no consequence.