And, indeed, these nations who might formerly have had a chance to create such a union, have xenophobic reasoning to do so.
Its a lot more prevalent than we're willing to admit.
For the countries you list, the only time in history that they ever were all in the same country was a brief period during the Abbasid Caliphate, which quickly broke apart. There is a lot of bad blood between Persians and Levantine Arabs that is going to prevent any sort of stable long-term stability.
We in the West are very xenophobic when it comes to assessing those nations we've destroyed in the last 20 years. We're not really being fair about such propositions as 'long term stability', really, when we do everything we can to make sure the region stays unstable...
Ever since the rise of nationalism in the Long 19th Century, and the collapse of the multiethnic empires that ended it, the ability to forge a common national identity has been the key to state survival. There is no hard and fast guideline to how to do so, and so it can be perplexing as to why Languedocs and Bretons can feel affinity in a French state whereas Serbs and Croats cannot feel affinity in a Yugoslav state--especially since, I will note, the first two groups do not speak the same language (at least, pre-French Revolution) but the latter two do!
And by Asian do you mean Pakistan as per British terminology?
One has to be pretty blinded by ones own hubris to think this is hilarious, in my opinion.
>Asia
Afghanistan, Iran, etc.
I mean, you know that Iraq was demolished. Afghanistan too. Libya, Syria .. and now Yemen.
Why do you think the 5-eyes forces are there instead of defending their homelands? Its not xenophobia?