Spengler: Arabs a Failed Culture

David P. Goldman channels the late German historian Oswald Spengler and is known for his keen insights into the Middle East. He begins a recent PJ Media column thus:

Middle East politics amounts to managing the decline of a failed culture. Nothing expresses Arab failure more vividly than Egypt, a banana republic without the bananas, now living on a $14 billion or so annual subsidy from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States. With 70% of its population living in agricultural areas, it imports half its food, and would starve if not for the Saudi check.

Goldman's bottom line is that Russia's Putin understands the Middle East while no one at a policy-making level in the U.S. government has a clue. See if you agree with his analysis.