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How the hell has the middle east kept up with us fairly well in technology but still managed to be hundreds of years behind us in terms of sanity???



Um, exactly what significant technology has been developed in the Middle East? They buy a lot of technology with their oil money.

I believe in the 2001 South Korea produced more patents than all the nations of the Middle East had in the previous 40 years. South Korea has a population of less than 50 million. The Middle East has a population greater than 300 million.
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