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This editorial is so ridiculous I don't know where to begin.

The biggest lie above is that "Arabs and Muslims support our values". They don't support anything but our complete annihilation, Helen, get a clue! No matter what our policy is, they would still be teaching that we are the great satan.....

But if the United States is to regain its respected status in the Arab World

Hmmm, how does one regain that which never has existed.

"But if the United States is to regain its respected status in the Arab World, Washington must change its one-sided policy, which has embedded deep bitterness among Arabs."

Are ALL Arabs delusional?
Do they REALLY believe they will succeed in eliminating all Jews and Christians from the "Holy Land"?
I for one, don't care for their "respect"...
I want them to acknowledge that they realize that their continued terrorist behavior can/will result in the destruction...

If the Arab world desires "respect", I would suggest that they get their lunatic fringe under control.....or we will..

The "hard way"...

Semper Fi

Helen, Helen. Your side keeps stumbling into reality, and your desperation betrays you. Rush is right, the Left gets crazy when they lose power.

God, it drives them crazy. It's not that we don't hear their anguished cries, it's that we hear them and we still don't care. They seethe, they write editorials, they pout, they demonstrate loudly in the street with rag-stuffed puppets on poles, they do about everything but take careful intellectual inventory of their own attitudes.

It really is tiresome by now. We hear it echoed worldwide: Americans are arrogant, they take what they want, and they ignore the global village to attend to their own selfish agenda.

This broken record plays through our too-eager big media and finds sympathetic ears only on those of us Americans who are pre-disposed to blame America first. Identified another way: the college educated, the disgruntled and underclass citizens who hate everything at any rate. That the intellectual elite and the angry poor agree on this point is noteworthy. Quick to agree that "we" Americans are arrogant and infuriating, they apparently don't count themselves in amongst the horde of unenlightened Yankees. But guess what?

New polls show that most Americans simply ignore this hand wringing, they do not care what other countries collectively think of the USA. While this "news" staggers the elite journalists and the malcontents, it is completely fitting that the majority of citizens of America (the shining beacon of free thought and self-determination among nations) holds the opinion of its inferiors in some contempt. Let them blubber. Given a chance, they would take our place as the rich, healthy, swaggering, powerful, successful nation immediately.

Well, not immediately, they would not wish to do the heavy work needed to create such a success story, the backbreaking building of America's infrastructure was done by their betters. Actually, America was built by their own countrymen who had the guts to immigrate to our shores and take the big gamble: thrive or perish. The bravest and smartest left their home countries and accepted America's tough bargain. Work hard here and open your mind, America will reward you with instant freedom and eventual wealth. Education combined with the work ethic will pay off every time; it has for 225 years and continues.

So the hateful media and the envious and angry foreigners think America is arrogant… so what? Let's ask the recent immigrants what they think. Foreign-born immigrants in America say they are happy here (96%), they would come here again given the choice (80%), and I suspect they approach hang-wringers with some disdain. As in every facet of life, those that do hard things tend to snicker at those who won't or can't.

Forget that without arrogant Yankee tourism dollars, most of these yipping yappers would remain in third world squalor. America pulls the lifestyle of the globe up with it, and it weighs heavy like a water soaked business suit. We buy their products and they make our gizmos. If they had the guts to read our Constitution and enact it they, too, could realize our achievements. Our success was paid for with the blood of patriots.

I call 'em as I see 'em. The chorus of America-hating whiners is wimps, weak, petulant, ungrateful, hypocritical and spineless. We hear them, we just don't heed.

"What Went Wrong?"

The problem with strengthening our ties to the Arab world is that it invariably involves capitulating to them. What we need to do is win their hearts and minds without turning a blind eye to terror.

The quickest way for the U.S. to improve its image with Arab world would be to make Helen wear a burqa, take away her drivers license, and stone her once in a while.