Tariq Ali in a speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco relates how Hugo Chavez was interviewed on al-Jazeera for an hour, and produced the largest outpouring of emails and letters al-Jazeera has ever had, almost all asking essentially the same question,
"When will the Middle East have its Hugo Chavez?"
The poor and oppressed are getting too much access to information, and it is making them unhappy with being poor, sick, uneducated and hungry.
Just like Franklin D. Roosevelt invented the New Deal to calm the revolting masses in the USA, someone needs to lead the downtrodden worker classes in the oil-rich nations in taking over the oil.
Nationalizing it. Redistributing the income from the relatives of sheiks to the children of the poor.
Betcha it would really cut down on the crazy jihadists.