Anyone taking a virtual tour of the Arab world is bound to feel a sense of depression, if not despair, that might deepen into neuralgia if they contemplate the scene for any length of time. Never since World War II has it been in such a state of rudderless chaos, with states mired in endless civil strife, inter-state wars, genocide orchestrated by fraternal Arab states, growing repression in states that had at least a pretence of representative government, not to speak of a Wahhabi monocult