But the US has never directly sent it's armies to fight behind the Isrealis!

The Arabs are poor stragezers. When the Soviet Union was around, they supplied the Arab nations with weapons. And apprently the Arabs could not use the Soviet properly.

THe Middle East as awhole has no manufacturing base, and no technology. Everything is imported from the West or Japan. There have no scientific or cultural innovation!

Fenix rising, I think a society that can not work or advance ,and that can not challenge more powerful societies, in the long run is doomed to extinction.

I think cultures are like species. Some will move on and evolve. Others will go extinct.

Actually, you have a number of people immigrating out of the Middle East, but almost no Westerners moving in. Clearly one society is preferably to another.

Starvation is common in much of the Islamic world. See Afghanistan, Somalia, etc. In countries like Somalia, and Afghanistan, clan warfare is quite common. They are not civilized.

Some Muslim countries like the Sudan and Mauritania still have legal slavery.

Some Muslim countries still execute women for adultery. A woman who is raped under sharia has to produce for male witnesses to prove that she is raped, or else she will bve executed for adultery!

And if it got out you had sexual relations with a man, Fenix, living in Muslim countries, it would be perfectly okay for your father or brothers to kill you.

Of course gays would be executed for sodomy.

So I would say yes, currently Western society is better than that kind of primitive savagery.