Did the Arab "Street" Geta Message We Didn't Mean to Send?

self | 5/7/04 | LS

[tm22721]

If I were a Saudi royal I would have my plane warming up on the runway.

BUMP

[lentulusgracchus]

Hmmmmm.........send in 2000 tanks and they fight like tigers. Turn one 90-pound little girl loose on them with a snarky attitude and liking for screwing with their heads, and they collapse like weeping virgins?

That's a bit much.

But there was a reason Pfc England et al. were doing those things and taking pictures in prison. Wonder if the interrogators put the pics out just to see what'd happen?

[meatloaf]

We need to release the photos of the Iraqis being fed to hogs and buried in pork skins.

[Joe Republc]

"...No, you're not reaching at all, and Rush DID talk about this at length: there is a huge element (no pun intended) of homo-eroticism here, and the same people who in America WANT to see this sort of stuff decry it in Iraq? This is just a little too transparant for many Americans."

Yeah, I suppose if these pix were presented in sexual orientation tolerance-training in kindergarten, it would be OK. (Tongue-in-cheek remark, of course. Pun intended, sorry, I can't help myself.)

-- Joe

[FITZ]

there is a huge element (no pun intended) of homo-eroticism here, and the same people who in America WANT to see this sort of stuff decry it in Iraq?

In Arab societies, the rich men buy up all the women --- the larger the harem the more prestige. What do people really think the lower class men --- those who often become soldiers really do for an outlet? It's just like in our prisons, those who have no women will turn to homosexual behavior.

[monkeywrench]

"What do people really think the lower class men --- those who often become soldiers really do for an outlet? It's just like in our prisons, those who have no women will turn to homosexual behavior."

Right after the war started, I read an article here about some prisoners our guys had taken, and it mentioned that one had on black lace panties.

[aculeus]

You got linked by this blogger. Scroll down to "Arab Street".

Congrats!

http://merdeinfrance.blogspot.com/

[LS]

Thanks. This looks like a real leftist site!

[aculeus]

Thanks. This looks like a real leftist site!

Not at all. He is (I believe) an American living in France who posts many anti-American cartoons, etc., from the French press but to ridicule them and to inform Americans of how loathsome are the French. Many of his links are to French language papers but be assured he is on our side.

[LS]

Very good! Thanks. The article, with more guts, also appears on David Horowitz's www.frontpagemagazine.com

[Loyola]

"Arab societies base everything on power and perceptions of power." Same for Southern Europe: It is part of the dichotomy between superiority complex (used to be an Empire) and inferiority complex (all their "Empires" are gone."
Loved your post.