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- TheBlueOne
See all that light green? That's all the people we just pissed off with that Saddam snuff film. See the dark green part? Those are the people who appreciate what we did. And if Bush has his way, we'll be bombing the people in dark green by March.
Heckuva job.
- Jaline0
If there's anyone who should be given that penalty, it's Saddam. But I can definitely think of some others who could use some discipline...
- formcounterform0
You obviously have no perspective, with your little map demo. Things are not that cut and dry.
- TheBlueOne0
You obviously have no perspective, with your little map demo. Things are not that cut and dry.
formcounterform
(Jan 1 07, 20:59)Excellent, all known unknowns and unknown knowns and stuff, right? I'll tell you what, we'll revisit this in two months and see where we're at then..
- formcounterform0
It has become my favorite past time to watch paranoid westerners hypothesize and analyze a group of people in which they have very little knowledge of their actual beliefs, culture, and way of life. A group of people up until about 5 years ago went basically ignore by the majority of the west. Now all of a sudden everyone is an expert on the middle east.
Boogie boogie.....the big bad AYE RAB is gonna get you!
BOO!
- M0NEYCIDE0
funny thing is that even before 911 the stereotype of arabs and muslims was terrorism...i worked for a family of syrians who gave me my crash coarse in arabs and islam, with them while americans bomb bagdad again in 1998, basically gave me a thourough history and political lesson on the issues. i had NO preconceptions but they were the ones who brought up the terrorism thing ...plus they were the most hilarious guys i'd ever met. i was 18 and they were god
- Jaline0
Edward Said talked about a lot of the cultural issues you mention in your post, MONEYCIDE. In fact, he discussed them long before 9/11 occurred.
- M0NEYCIDE0
i should add that the 'arab terrorist' was still a rare breed and likley less threatning then the irish equivalent