Daniel Pipes is a leading expert on Middle East studies.
Here linked below he talks about the tremendous problems that countries in the Middle East face.
Unrest and hardship generate hostility and make populations prone to agitation and bellicosity.
Xenophobia and hate are often the products of hardship and political manipulation.
In a world of proliferation of weapons of great destructive power, that’s not so good.
http://townhall.com/columnists/danielpipes/2014/01/25/the-sick-middle-east-n1784131