Oil, Food, Control And The Arab World

Just came across this interesting quote by Henry Kissinger in the mid 1970’s:

“Control the oil and you control entire nations; control the food and you control the people.”

~ Henry Kissinger

Rings very true, even if in a conspiracy theory kind of way, but yet if we look at the Arab world; we control most of the oil in the world, and we produce a lot of the food in the world, and have the potential to produce even more, yet there isn’t an area of the world that has less control, even over its own future.
What does that tell us?