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This is very insightful. You are right my friend. The Arabs had forgotten how to fight but that happened long before western rule of the region after WWI. After the first generations of Muslims conquered all before them, the following generations became soft and decadent. The hard lives of their ancestors were a distant memory. That is why they were so inept during the first crusade when the Europeans captured Jerusalem. This marked the beginning of the transition away from Arab leadership of the Muslim world. Salahadin who led the fight against the crusade was not an Arab at all, but a Kurd. After the third crusade, the are was invaded by the mongols. They sacked Baghdad and took over control of the Muslim world from the Arabs. The mongols were later routed by the Turks, who had recently converted to Islam at that time. It was the Turks who then became the military power of the Muslim world of around 800 years until 1920. Only then did the region come under western rule.

As for Iran, they are Persians. Their politics and culture are different from ours. I don’t really understand it that much.

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