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TRAGEDY OF THE ARABS
New York Post ^
| March 30, 2003
| RALPH PETERS
Posted on 03/30/2003 11:37:05 AM PST by yonif
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:12:52 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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March 30, 2003 -- TV networks in the Arab world gloat as they broadcast pictures of American prisoners executed by Saddam's thugs. They report every Iraqi lie as if it contains unassailable truth, while mocking each report of allied success. They promise their viewers Iraq is winning the war. They betray their own people by doing so, setting up Arabs for yet another psychological catastrophe.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; ralphpeters
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To: Salman
Isn't Morocco really considered more Northern Africa?
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posted on
03/30/2003 12:50:33 PM PST
by
Hildy
To: yonif
Excellent analysis. God bless the New York Post. Another year or two and they will pass the NY Times on the intellectual as well as the moral level.
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posted on
03/30/2003 1:12:37 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Salman
It takes more than a mathematics department to make a great university, although that's a good start. You need the basic arts and sciences as well, history, world literature, the classics, philosophy--you name it.
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posted on
03/30/2003 1:14:54 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: yonif
The absurdities broadcast and printed throughout the Arab world are symptoms of a once-great culture's moral desolation Is there a parallel here in France's hatred of the English and the US? French was once the language of culture and commerce. They've lost their greatness and are now full of resentment at the new "lingua franqa"
To: yonif
absolutely spot on.... a simply outstanding analysis.. my thoughts -- and general approach to most things "insane" ... captured exactly but expressed with more focus and more cogently than my skills will admit....
To: faithincowboys
Many Arabs who know the truth play to the street to stay in power, just like "black leaders" in America. And they keep their constituents whipped up into a perpetual frenzied state of paranoia, hatred and envy.
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posted on
03/30/2003 8:10:55 PM PST
by
razorbak
To: yonif; hellinahandcart; SJackson; dennisw; LurkerNoMore!; Ms. AntiFeminazi
Warrior/scholar Ralph Peters nails it again!
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posted on
03/31/2003 1:18:46 PM PST
by
Stultis
To: Hildy
I taught Saudi and Iranian men in college classrooms for a couple years...though I was twenty at the time, and not unused to a little attention, I was continually uncomfortable with the odd way they looked at me. It wasn't your normal leer, which at least has a bit of wholesome good health about it--but this awful hatefulness mixed in. Like "I'll &^%$ you, then I'll kill you," kind of look. Shudder. And there were not a few gals taken with that kind of thing...
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posted on
03/31/2003 1:34:05 PM PST
by
Mamzelle
To: Mamzelle
>I taught Saudi and Iranian men in college classrooms for a couple years
So did I, and I found them to be "unserious" at best. One of them threatened to kill a fellow teacher if he failed him in a course.
To: Mamzelle
...their biggest concern after endless playing was in simply passing, for if they failed, their generous stipends from home would be cut off and they would be required to return home. Anything was better than that, even doing a little studying and attending class from time to time.
To: skraeling
Did you observe that there was a certain sort of female that seemed to gravitate to these students? These gals simply perplexed me, but I was too young to understand self-destructiveness, neurosis, and masochism, which form a strong impulse in so many women.
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posted on
04/01/2003 6:02:40 AM PST
by
Mamzelle
To: Mamzelle
Yep, they had their own set of groupies.
To: yonif
Baghdad was once the center of Arab culture, of science and the arts, and a beacon of human progress. That was B.M. (Before Mohammed)
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posted on
04/01/2003 7:45:44 AM PST
by
Alouette
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