The Middle East is already laid waste.

Pop culture will destroy the nationalistic and religious ties that unite the Middle East against the West.

Pop is completely decentralized and depends on technology, not any nation, for its power. The Middle East recoginizes their enemy in Pop Culture, but lacks the framework to understand its decentralized nature.

They mistakenkly believe that they can defeat it by destroying the US and the West.

They don't realize that pop has already destroyed the US and they have no hope against it outside of Christ.

How long will it be before societies reorient themselves around something other than nations?

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/08DAE45E-F241-4857-8A53-F937254A59E8.htm