Arab Countries Have contributed Nothing to World progress in the 20th Century

This piece proclaims, accurately, I think, the lack of progress in the Muslim/Arab regions of the world, with some exceptions. This reality has created a cauldron of hate and resentment against the West and the USA in particular, mostly from envy and grinding poverty.
While much of Western culture is best not absorbed or emulated by Muslims or others in the regressed world, the scientific and technological advances of the secular Western societies stand in stark contrast to the failed Muslim/Arab example. Were it not for oil riches that the West needs, those countries the have become more affluent would likely be mired in the same poverty and destitution as the rest of the Muslim world.

If our experiment in Iraq is meant to show a different model for the Muslim world, we, and eventually the West, will expend enormous energy and treasure to deliver the success.

Generations of Muslim teachings and repression must be reversed. If we succeed, the Muslim world will become a direct threat to America and the West, along with China, owing to the sheer numbers of people who have the potential to thrive with a society and culture based on freedom and individual liberty.

I predict that in 50-100 years, absent devastating nuclear war, America will not be the dominant nation-state in the world