[porte des morts]

I for one want to see the video of a person raised in the desert, trying to figure out a 'sit on top kayak' in 3-4 foot waves.(not even mentioning 600lbs of cargo.)

[Right Wing Professor]

So, you think they're less likely to be able to paddle kayaks than fly 747s?

[GingisK]

I for one want to see the video of a person raised in the desert, trying to figure out a 'sit on top kayak'

Underestimating an enemy is the first move toward defeat. Besides, it doesn't take much instruction or practice to make some use of a such a craft.

How long would it take you to learn to survive in the dessert?

[Myrddin]

I for one want to see the video of a person raised in the desert, trying to figure out a 'sit on top kayak' in 3-4 foot waves.(not even mentioning 600lbs of cargo.)

I suspect the kayak will be loaded with 600 lbs of C4 and towed by SCUBA equipped swimmers to the target in the middle of the night to avoid observation. Sitting on top of the kayak wastes 150 lbs of carrying capacity.

[hang 'em]

There are no waves in Long Beach Harbor.

[John H K]

I for one want to see the video of a person raised in the desert

Arabs don't live in the desert, nor are they raised there, nor do they ride camels, except for a very tiny minority consisting of Bedouin nomads, which are probably smaller in population relative to the overall Arab population than the population of real cowboys riding horses and herding cattle in the US relative to the total US population.

The odds are overwhelming that any given Arab is basically a city-slicker who has barely seen a real camel in their life or spent any time at all in the desert.

Remember all the idiotic garbage by clueless Chicken Littles prior to the Gulf War about the Iraqis and all their desert combat experience?(which actually was completely non-existent; the Iran-Iraq War was fought in soggy MARSHES)

Actually, given the geography of Southeast Iraq and the fairly dense population there, there actually are more "Marsh Arabs" living on the water, in an environment similar to southern Louisiana, than Arabs that actually live in the desert.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

I for one want to see the video of a person raised in the desert ......

I agree, it would be like a guy raised on the plains of west Texas becoming an Admiral. But then again there was Chester Nimitz ...........

[FreedomPoster]

I for one want to see the video of a person raised in the desert, trying to figure out a 'sit on top kayak' in 3-4 foot waves.(not even mentioning 600lbs of cargo.)

I'd pay to see that show! If it were a "peaceful, friendly Muslim" / illegal alien.

[Kenny Bunk]

The sea-Arabs are pretty handy sailors, trading for millenia in sailing vessels along the coast of Africa and India.

No lack of talent for the mission.

[pompelmous]

Look at a map. There is a lot of water around the Arab states. The scuba diving is not that great by Beirut because explosives were used to fish during the civil war but there is a sport there.