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Answer is trivial: Pakistan HDI: Malaysia HDI:

I think the difference is not as absolute as it appears. If Pakistan was pumping billions of dollars' worth of oil out and Iran was dependent on the charity of IMF and others every quarter, the political positions they have taken may have been reversed. Foreign policy is not made in vacuum based...

Turks are not unique in that. Most normal people don't want military adventure outside their borders when their interests are not threatened.

You missed my point. I was not commenting about whether Music and football are allowed in Islam. I was commenting about the appropriateness of holding a music festival and announcing a football tournament when Arab neighbors are in a terrible war. I can eat candy whenever I want, but it won't...

Where was he being racist to point out that Arab immigrants and refugees are more welcome in Europe than in neighboring Arab countries? How many Syrian refugees did Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar take? This entire thread is about the fact that Arab countries are not giving a hoot about...

Saudi's host Music Festival and Football ... God works in mysterious ways .... That is why it is presumptuous to assume God is on our side.

'terminal'? If you hit your garage wall while backing out your car, it is not a 'terminal guidance' issue.

'48 and '67 are too ancient to be of much use. Probably the best hope is to revive the 1993 Oslo process in some form and bring enough international pressure on all sides to force it to success and provide some guarantees and verifiable means like the SALT and START treaties between U.S. and USSR.

I think it is the hormones and not the brain that is doing such writing. Some folks who don't know how to fix a breakfast without assistance can expound at length on complicated international strategic issues like who should start a war with whom, when to use nukes etc., May be by watching too...

True; but the question is how much pain the Arabs want to inflict on themselves for sake of Hamas/Gaza? Blocking the canal and stopping the oil would be easy decisions if it only hurts others and not themselves. Egypt derives much of its income from Canal revenues, tourism and remittances of its...

Somehow the passivity and lack of creativity in even attempting to find a solution suggests the air is thick with pessimism. I have not seen this before. My guess is, Israelis are just in a foul mood and are not listening to anyone. They are viewing this as Good vs. Evil in its purest form. This...

Yes, Sisi is no Jefferson, but the OP wanted to take Egypt to apocalypse because of Gaza war. That I have to commit suicide because my neighbor and 'good friend' (questionable but let us go with it) is suffering a tragedy is not rational.

But Sisi and his colleagues can look left and down on the map and say, no, we don't want 'That'. That is why they, and not some random dudes from the streets, are the leaders.

If the 'Citizens' or Subjects of Gulf Arab countries try this on the street, let alone in the 'parliament', they would be Khashoggied. Politics is downstream of culture.

That is why I said even if they wanted. i.e., it is not possible even hypothetically. It is like me jumping to moon. I don't want to, but even if I wanted, I can't.

I think I don't fully follow the logic. Israel is not some superpower that has the will or the ability to mold Gaza into a new little Japan or South Korea, even if they 'win' this war. (Quote marks because I don't know what 'win' means in this war. Is it flattening entire Gaza and converting it...

I think you are mistaken with the aircraft. F-35 are fighters, they can't do much damage on a large country like Iran in case of war. For example, the Gulf war employed these assets at the start: The initial strikes were carried out by Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from U.S. Navy warships...

I think if Israel wins this war, one of the objectives will be to remove this cheap rocket pinprick ability. There is no sense in them ending the war and still allow Hamas the ability to fire rockets. Any Israeli government that allows that will be ridiculed. So, it is either dissolve the...

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Just because I want to understand war strategy doesn't make me a heartless bastard. I do feel the tragedy of 2 million people without food or water. But my question still remains: why was this consequence not anticipated? Netanyahu did not fall from sky yesterday. Hamas and Israel have been...