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To: immadashell

“Deport Kate Adams”

I disagree. The more born-Americans who can speak Arabic is a big plus for the USA.

After 9/11 we were caught with our pants down because we did not have enough Arabic/Farsi translators.

Further, it is my opinion that all American citizens should be required to become fluent in at least one foreign language. I do not care which language any student may choose to learn as long as we have some translators of every language on the planet to avoid what happened after 9/11. We were having to depend upon native-Arabic speakers translating to English. Many of them could not be trusted because they were sympathetic to Al Qaeda.

And before you ask, yes, I speak one foreign language and can communicate in several, or at the very least, know the general gist of any communication in those other languages.


28 posted on 06/20/2015 9:43:30 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I?)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
I disagree. The more born-Americans who can speak Arabic is a big plus for the USA.

I agree with you. But I suspect the tenor of the teaching at these schools will be very sympathetic to our enemies and hostile to America and the American way. I simply do not trust public schools to do the right thing, ever. Not in today's political climate.

By the way, my son is at UC Davis majoring in Mandarin Chinese, minoring in Farsi. :)

50 posted on 06/20/2015 2:30:08 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
I love it when someone says “all American citizens should be required...”

Clearly indicates that anything else that someone says is irrelevant.

51 posted on 06/20/2015 2:33:00 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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