Fight to kill

The Arab world has a primitive mode of selecting its leaders. Contenders for leadership don't eliminate close rivals by defeating them in some contest, they kill and murder each other. 

This primitive mode of selecting domestic leadership through the ruthless, lawless, murderous exercise of raw power corresponds in their foreign relations likewise to an even greater proclivity to exercise raw, and often grotesque power. The Arabs will sieze power through any means and at any cost. When they say ‘by any means necessary,’ they are talking not only about suicide bombing and hostage taking but also about human shields, organized terror campaigns and WMDs and nuclear holocaust, the wholesale murder and mutilation of children, and anything that violates the decent sensibilities of those they denote as adversaries. 

Like an animal fighting against another species, the Arabs fight to kill; they don't fight to defeat, as an animal would with an intra-special rival. To the Arabs, everyone is an enemy. 

The pretenders to leadership cannot afford to think in terms of the general welfare. They must instead think in terms of their own persons because loss of power usually redounds to a personal death sentence. 

The entire process of allocation of power in the Arab world is lacking in dignity. No-one in Arabia can organize in a way that gives meaning to a corporate body, where the effects are on the corporation and not on the person. 

The Arabs seem not to understand and not to permit the notion of a greater identity, or if they do, the greater identity is to the family or to the religious group or some other grouping that feels beset by the outside world. Their greater identity is never to society at large, and certainly not to non-Arabs. Their’s is a greater identity that defines itself in terms of defensive rather than productive, expansive or open postures. Lacking a healthy greater identity, the Arabs create communities through the exercise of power, from externally imposed cooperation that comes from absolute rulers and despots.