In the long term, the US will gain nothing – and risk much – by continuing to back oil sheikhdoms that fund Muslim extremist groups and madrasas from the Philippines and India to South Africa and Venezuela. By supporting Islamist rulers, the US is contributing to a trend evident from the Maghreb to the badlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan – Muslims killing Muslims.
从长期看，美国什么也得不到，风险倒是很大——如果它继续支持资助穆斯林极端主义集团的石油酋长和从菲律宾和印度到南非和委内瑞拉的宗教学校的话。支持伊斯兰统治者的美国在助长从马格利布到阿富汗和巴基斯坦山沟的穆斯林杀戮穆斯林的趋势。