You're sarcasm is noted Albert. My feelings however are crystal clear, and based upon recorded fact, together with over 25 years of working in the Arab world.
A lifetime of watching the rapid spread of an intolerant, extremism that threatens the tolerance and freedoms that the West and USA won with blood and now are giving away.
Working in countries whose intolerant and extreme religion openly advocates the death of those whom they disagree with. That flogs, beheads, and stones people in public. Places that implacably forbid those who come to work for them to openly practice their own religion.
Where I could be prosecuted for displaying any symbol of Christianity, deported for ever requesting a place where I might pray, while at the same time be obliged to respect their prayer times their observance of Ramadan and time of fasting. And never, never, ever openly protest that my basic freedoms were being infringed upon. All these freely given to those who come to the West and USA
They on the other hand demand all over the West, and in America to be able to build their Mosques, build their Madras's where their extremism and intolerance is preached and taught. Demand that Sharia law be observed and implemented. And in the West and America, our tolerance and freedoms allows them to spread their extremism, intolerance and fanaticism.
The rabid baying hate of the hordes has been recorded in every country that will happily hold out their hands for aid then spit at those who give it.
Some forgot themselves enough to raise their hands to strike, and to their surprise found that blow returned.
My affiliations and feelings are very clear Albert, as are yours.
The people you are working for have laudable qualities. Industrious, careful with money, and with a long history to be proud of. But it is also where the individual is sacrificed for the good of the many, and personal freedoms are few. Where the standard of living for many is low enough for you to be able to tout your cheap labor costs hence cheap products. Where intellectual rights are so commonly ignored, again lowering the costs.
That they will be a superpower again, is not disputed. Nations rise and fall, civilizations flourish then wither away. But all human advancement comes with a cost.
Ones own station and place in this world determines how we feel think and act.
I, deeply appreciative of being born and brought up in one that allowed me the personal freedoms I have enjoyed so deeply; support, and happily give my allegiance to it, without I might add, the promise of any virgins.