As for the terrible Muslim regular armies, can you point me at a single war since 1689 in which Western armies or navies have met Muslim forces without ripping them apart? Muslims are bad soldiers, because they are only willing to die. A good soldier is willing to fight and win; death is not something he wishes for, but something he is willing to risk in the pursuit of victory. And if there is one thing that history proves over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, it is that the educated soldier inevitably has the edge over the illiterate one, however obedient and brave. Illiteracy and ignorance are so widespread in the Muslim world that Muslim soldiers remain hopeless human material. It is largely because of the enormously higher educational level - allowing greater flexibility at all levels, a clearer understanding of specific goals, and more effective use of tools and weapons - that Israel has consistently overcome much larger Muslim armies. You can put a Muslim in a tank, but you cannot make him an engineer. And as for that dreadful Iranian army, what does it say about its real potential, that Iran is actually incapable to refine enough oil for its own use, and has to import petrol and other fuels from abroad? Not only is petrol, as the Nazis found out, of some importance in modern war, but a country that is so incapable of satisfying its basic needs cannot possibly have enough educated and trained men to take its army to a Western level. The same goes for the Muslim armies in Africa. The only successes they have achieved are in places like Sudan, when they were already in control of the state machinery and went after helpless iron-age villagers who started the war with old British Lee-Enfield rifles. And even so, Col.Garang's rebels, in spite of their isolation, poverty and lack of starting military resources, managed to give such a hard time to the government forces, that they were forced to reach a peace deal with the South (in spite of Garang's own mysterious death) which has not yet been breached. And believe me, if they felt strong enough to be able to breach it, they would. The truth is that the tribal southerners, starting with nothing but their courage, have thumped the Hell out of Khartoum Arabs with tanks and planes.