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2004-08-26 Arabia

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Posted by Fred 2004-08-26 10:05:57 PM|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This come from The Green Truth?
*thump thump gurgle thump thump*

Be still my beating heart! My pills!

He's only 5 or 6 good ClueBat whacks from a home run! The lynchpin of individuality - especially individual dignity and self reliance! Wow! And he hit other buttons scattered over the board. I'm sorta impressed... (I hate to be a killjoy) but in the same way I was with a Saudi programmer who didn't completely suck or skate all day without working... In Saudi Arabia, he was a relative phreakin' genius. In the West, he'd max out at mediocre. Still, he hit buttons - and he hit them on purpose...

If people there keep bracketing the key points with shots like this - sooner or later the literate Saudis will see it. Embracing it is something else, but hell, you do have to see it first, so credit where due.

I hope this guy isn't sacked or thrashed for writing this piece. *golf clap*

Posted by .com 2004-08-26 1:11:59 AM|| 2004-08-26 1:11:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 And Texas, Republic of! Remember that too. Remember the Alamo, Bueno Vista, and the California promise of manifest destiny.

And may god bless! For it is good.

Posted by Lucky 2004-08-26 1:31:30 AM|| 2004-08-26 1:31:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe this guy should be invited to go to Notre Dame, not Ramadan?

Posted by True German Ally 2004-08-26 1:41:44 AM|| 2004-08-26 1:41:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 At the risk of sounding like a terminal liberal arts geek, all this guy is doing is recycling V.S. Naipal(sp?) Among the Believers. Still, I also agree with Dot Com that this guy is dangerously close to getting it.

Posted by N Guard 2004-08-26 6:41:29 AM|| 2004-08-26 6:41:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Naipaul. Funnily enough, I had a book of short stories on my desk containing a sketch his from his novel 'Miguel Street', recently serialized on BBC World Service Radio. The BBC can produce good stuff - when they're not busy tripping over their own political correctness.

Posted by Bryan 2004-08-26 7:08:47 AM|| 2004-08-26 7:08:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Self-critiquing from the Arab world? Good! This is where the beginning of the end of this WoT starts. The big tasks of self-critique and change remain: stopping jihadis from using violence to force Islam on the rest of the world, and raising the status of women from furniture/slaves to human beings. How many decades/centuries will that take, do you think?

Posted by jules 187 2004-08-26 9:37:16 AM|| 2004-08-26 9:37:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 An amazing fit of introspection from someone trapped in a culture that seemingly forbids it. This guy is just begging for a fatwa on his @ss.

Posted by Psycho Hillbilly 2004-08-26 10:13:17 AM|| 2004-08-26 10:13:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 a fatwah calling for his beheading in 5 . . .4 . . .3 . . .

Posted by PlanetDan 2004-08-26 10:22:38 AM|| 2004-08-26 10:22:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Jeebus, somebody whupped that boy upside the head with a clue X 4. I would pick one little nit: we don't resent our dependence on their oil simply because we are independent. It's trade, and I think most people would be content to buy a product from abroad that they can't produce locally. What we resent is that the oil ticks are turning around and using that money to further their religious expansionism, in ways that are detrimental to our safety and way of life.

Posted by BH 2004-08-26 10:37:51 AM|| 2004-08-26 10:37:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Saudi Arabia has truly taken a side if this is any sign. Calling Bin Laden the cave man was particularly nice touch.

Posted by RJSchwarz 2004-08-26 12:04:37 PM|| [http://politicaljunky.blogspot.com] 2004-08-26 12:04:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Arabnews is an English language paper and it's target audiences are the expats in SA and the unsuspecting foreigners outside. I would place much more credibility on what the Arabic language papers have to say.

Posted by ed 2004-08-26 12:12:33 PM|| 2004-08-26 12:12:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 We see ourselves as dependant units that make a whole.

Translation - they're the Borg without the technology.

Posted by Raj 2004-08-26 12:26:03 PM|| 2004-08-26 12:26:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Stealing from who I can't remember....

The Americans are different from us,.... they have morals.

The rich are different... who was that?

Posted by Shipman 2004-08-26 3:50:23 PM|| 2004-08-26 3:50:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 This guy has actually hit some nails right on the head. Could he petition Naif or Abdullah at the next weekly majlis?
BH: Like all generalities, there are exceptions. I agree with you that we don't resent their oil since it's just business. But the "we" doesn't include Kerry, Teresa, and other camp followers. If you're this writer, and you watch US network news, you'd think that Kerry is right on all things, therefore he's gotta think we got it in for the MK.

Posted by chicago mike 2004-08-26 4:47:30 PM|| 2004-08-26 4:47:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Shipman,

I belive it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who said "the rich are different from the rest of us".

Ernest Hemingway's reply was "yes, they have more money".

Posted by Dakotah 2004-08-26 5:58:54 PM|| 2004-08-26 5:58:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Thanks Dakotah... I half remember the first, but kept thinking the second line was a vaudeville joke.

Posted by Shipman 2004-08-26 7:07:07 PM|| 2004-08-26 7:07:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 "Historically, Shiite theologians and imams were known for superlative eloquence and impressive scholarship, neither of which this man [Sadr] seems to have. He can hardly string three words in one simple sentence."

Hey guys - wasn't I saying this the other day?

Think ArabNews reads Rantburg?

Nah - I just wanted to let you guys know what the US Mainstream Media is hiding from you:

Sadr is looked down upon by most Shia, all Sunnis (except those that find himto be a convenient tool) and almost all secular Iraqis.

The only people floating his banner are the mutts that he broke out of prison, the Iranians who need him around, a few gullible fundamentalists, Zarqari and others who cane use him as a disrutpvie force to their ends, and those on the take in the ghettos in Baghdad where he is cashing in on his father's reputation.

This mook is finally being exposed for what he is, yet Dan Blather and the US press keep painting a demonstrably false picture because it serves their political side to have Iraq remain unsettled.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-08-26 10:12:24 PM|| 2004-08-26 10:12:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 OldSpook, Dont forget that Tater is a 'legitimate voice of Iraq'.

(at least according to Kerry and the Dimocrats. The MSM is just an expression of that.)

Posted by Anonymous6185 2004-08-26 11:22:26 PM|| 2004-08-26 11:22:26 PM|| Front Page Top

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