Why do Arab countries lose wars?

They have some of the best equipment, Pay is off course never a factor in fighting skill.
The reason is lack of a warrior culture. When the arabs had the propogation of Islam as a mission, they were organised behind this aim, but since its impossible to convert people forcibly now, their is no  unifying cause & hence the defeats due to a lack of a reason which is motivating enough.

The reason behind this is not military, it is poiltical. Vishnugupta Bhatt, the Godfather teacher of Chandragupta Maurya & writer of Arthashatra, a treatise on statecraft in early 320 BC says Fools fight with armies, intelligent men win them with politics & diplomacy. He employed these strategies to found the first docuented Indian empire & was successful in defeating driving out the Greeks under Selucas Nicator from India. Without much fighting !

The Arabs today have some of the most modern weaponry in the world, thanks to their oil money. they have control over the richest lands in the planet. they are home to war like people, but fall prey to the politics of nations. It is this trait which defeats them much more than the enemy armies.




Edited by Vivek Sharma - 13-Sep-2006 at 01:49

Originally posted by sandzo ALLAHU EGBER  the whole world is against us but we will rise up inshalla with the help and side of allah all you kafirs burn in jahanam  we eselam walejkum brothers and sisters.

all you kafirs burn in jahanam


 Watch your words. You ae nobody to burn all kafirs (non belivers / non muslims) in hell (jahannum).

 Its not that they are bad. The others are simply better.

Originally posted by Kapikulu   Maybe you can tell us if there is any Arab country without oil revenue other than Jordan,which barely consists of a very small percent of the Arab World...   Egypt and Syria exports less than others,but crude petroleum and oil products are still  one of Syria Egypt's main export goods.

Originally posted by �ok ge�   Only Gulf states are the Arabs whose income is oil-dependant, thus, 75% of other Arabs without oil revenue.

Edited by Kapikulu - 22-Aug-2006 at 14:38

Corlanx

Edited by azimuth - 21-Aug-2006 at 04:49

When you say "always lose wars", you must mean the Israeli wars, because the Arabs don't usually have a history of losing wars outside of those conflicts.

Originally posted by Jay. Are there not two different ways to pray? Which way do you pray, like a Sunni or Shiia?

The difference between Sunnis and Shiites is indeed politic as Scorpius said. What he didn't mention is that it was politic in the 7th Chritian century (first century of Islam) but know it got cristalized into religious dogma.

Both belive Mohamed is the last prophet. No muslim (except very very few exceptions) belive anybody else to be the last prophet.

After the death of Mohamad, in 732, the question was: who is going to be his successor? His closest companions or his son-in-law, Ali. Most went for the closest companion but some staid with Ali. After a few battle the all Ali familly was kill and Ali along them. Yet his corps was found (his grave is said to be in Kerbala, Irak) some of his followers went on fighting. There has been a serie of 7 or more often 12 imams succeding him. Anyway the last of the serie didn't die but disappear and his return on Earth is expected by the Shiites as much as the Christian wait for the return of Christ and the Jews the arrival of the Messie.

Shia became the third sect of  Islam (with the sunnis and the Kharidjites). But on the countrary of the sunnis who do have different traditions but see each other as one single group. The Shiites are divided. The Iranian and the Irakis are Duodecimites (they belive it is the 12th iman that is to come back). But the Druzes in Lebanon are waiting for somebody else. The is another sect in Iran waiting for the 7th imam... Quite scrumbled as you can see. Of course they have been killing each other for generations and thus there is a hatred or at least a powerful suspiscion between them. Sunnis in particular are very anti-Iranian. Yet for about 10years many islamic thinkers are claiming all muslims should get together. The most famous of these leader is Osama Bin Laden.