Defeats dismay Arab media

The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 7, 2003 | Gerald Butt

[jdege]

"Why have we not seen the surprises?"

We have seen the surprises - we've seen hundreds of machinegun-armed pickup trucks charging columns of armored vehicles, and we've seen them quickly turned into smoking piles of slag.

It's not that the surprises haven't been tried, they haven't worked.

I'm reminded of a bit from Hitchhikers' Guide:

For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Sounds like some of the Arabs have been sneaking peeks of Fox News. Al Jizzera and the other AraboFascist media outlets have the US-UK losing...

[timestax]

Iraqi leader had promised "surprises" that would inflict huge losses. "Why have we not seen the surprises?"

YIKES ! This Islamic dude wishes for large USA loses.

[Cachelot]

A presenter on the Dubai-based al-Arabiya television network said the Iraqi leader had promised "surprises" that would inflict huge losses. "Why have we not seen the surprises?"

You got the surprises, loser. Not the surprises you expected, but then you wuldn't have been surprised, see?

Now for the next... Syria? Iran?? "Palestine"????

So many losers, so much ammo...

[Arkinsaw]

They do this every time something happens. Their press misleads them to the heights of ecstasy and then reality falls on them. Yet they keep on believing their fake press over and over again.

[Voltage]

I wonder if it will ever sink in that there is something fundamentally wrong with their societies? On the other hand it might be just as well that they remain disfunctional.

[Teacher317]

Oh, to see video of Arabs loyal to Saddam, and the expressions on their faces, after they witness our cargo planes landing safely at Saddam Baghdad International, not two days after they were told that US forces weren't within 200 miles of Baghdad.

[RonHolzwarth]

This is crazy.

They are using the same tactics as Nazi Germany did while losing the war they were claiming to be "winning".

Even the stories of the long awaited "secret weapons the Fuehrer was waiting to unleash".

Can't they get a little more original?

Or, (scary thought) HONEST???

[Bullish]

Guess God aint' on their side after all, huh?

[Polybius]

The Arab psyche is the victim of their own propaganda.

They unquestionally swallow the al-Jazeera reports of Iraqi prowess and victories and Allied quagmire and defeat and then find themselves totally "shocked and awed" when reality inevitably bursts their fantasy bubble.

If the Arabs had thrown their sympathies with the oppressed Iraqi people rather than the Baathist thugs, these Arabs could now be celebrationg a victory with the citizens of Basra instead of enduring another "humiliation".

[RippleFire]

bump

[Steely Tom]

What really worries me is that this might inflame the Arab "street" and make them hate us even more.

LOL.

(steely)

[Carolinamom]

They've gotten their surprise.....WE are the winners.

[Teacher317]

A presenter on the Dubai-based al-Arabiya television network said the Iraqi leader had promised "surprises" that would inflict huge losses. "Why have we not seen the surprises?"

Islam is truly a sick social construct. This "Moderate Muslim" is saddened that chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons are not being used.

[Guillermo]

The vast majority of Arabs live in an alternate universe.

I even heard one not to long ago deny that the 6 day war even occurred.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Actually, I would rather that they keep their heads in the sand. Otherwise they might be tougher to beat next time.

[Guillermo]

I love hearing the leftists and hollywood types say that we need to act in a manner which will make them like us better.

HELLO! THEY (Hollywierdos) are one of the main reasons why Muslims hate us.

[oldtimer]

One thing that is certain is that the Islam world now hates the West at least as much as they hate the Jews.

From Farrakahn in the US, the Muslim message of convert or death is everywhere from Indonesia, Phillipines, France (10% of the population), various African countries, Russia ad infinitum - the stage is being for a conflict that might truly be the beginning of the what the Book of Revelations is all about. This so called religion of Islam is the religion of satan.

[Ramcat]

"Iraqi leader had promised "surprises" that would inflict huge losses. "Why have we not seen the surprises?"

YIKES ! This Islamic dude wishes for large USA loses"

Displaced Columbia professor?

[wimpycat]

"Why didn't Saddam order all the bridges to be blown up along the route to the capital?" another studio guest wondered.

Because they're not as "elite" as they have been billed? I asked myself the same question. I'm no military expert, but from what little I know about WWII and other wars, if you know you can't hold the bridge, you blow it up. It seems to be common knowledge amongst the military people. If I had been whoever is in charge in Baghdad, I would have ordered the bridges blown up, if for no other reason than to make as big a mess as possible for the Coalition to clean up. I wonder why their Russian advisers didn't advise them to blow up the bridges? For all we know, they did, but the Iraqis were too stupid and unrealistically confident in their abilities against the Coalition to listen.