not a chance - when Arabs are whipped, they cower.
The left said the same about U.S. invading Iraq. "The middle east will erupt" - doesn't happen and we should stop parroting this crap.
To S.A.
I loved you,
so I drew these tides of men
into my hands
and wrote my will
across the sky in stars
To earn you Freedom,
the seven-pillared worthy house,
that your eyes might be shining for me
When we came.
Death seemed my servant on the road,
till we were near
and saw you waiting:
When you smiled, and in sorrowful envy
he outran me and took you apart:
Into his quietness.
Love, the way-weary, groped to your body,
our brief wage ours for the moment
Before earth’s soft hand explored your shape,
and the blind worms grew fat upon Your substance.
Men prayed me that I set our work,
the inviolate house, as a memory of you.
But for fit monument I shattered it, unfinished:
and now The little things creep out
to patch themselves hovels
in the marred shadow
Of your gift.
--Thomas Edward Lawrence, dedication, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.