Pat's ever the ray of sunshine, isn't he?
If we were living
in 1933, Pat
would be "wondering"
if maybe, somehow,
the Jews really were the root
of Germany's grief . . .
Pat's intellect has entered the 2+2=5 stage.
He no longer can think clearly on these issues.
A great many of his facts are right, but the package he ties them up in, and the conclusions he sends them to,
leave much to be desired. The same Arabs who "distrust" the USA for example , find something positive in AL Quaeda's "standing up to the United States"????
We have got our hands full dealing in general with "the Arab world". They are simply living on another planet.
And the populations of the oil-rich nations, especially Saudi Arabia, had better figure out what their place in the world might be when the ONLY thing they contribute to the planet is a resource that will someday not be in nearly so much demand as it is today. THIS aspect of Arab life is not discussed much, but it is essential to their intransigence and their enormous blind spots and their total isolation from the rest of the world.