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There's one big difference between the Marshall Plan and such a concept in the M.E. That is what you have at the end of it after you've spent all that money.
The root problem of Arabic failure is not that they don't have a batch of infrastructure. It's that their culture is fundamentally flawed in the direction of never becoming productive and modern. Germany was the most productive nation in the world before it had to be crushed and re-built. It could be made productive in a new direction. The heart of the M.E. has not produced anything but oil and violence since the years had three numbers in 'em. 1B or 100B is a rathole until the culture changes.
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