Harold and Susan Vordos said:
Thanks, Keith.. I'm not good at this political bullshit------you said it
very nicely.
Harold
Yes, he did. I just wish more people who believe that all we have to do is
leave them alone would contact some of the overseas employment firms, take a
job in the Middle East, and get over there and work for a while. I did,
part of '75 and from '78 until '82. There's a rabidly fanatic minority who
unequivocally want us dead. Anyone western...........dead. The average
Arab impressed me as decent, hard working and deeply devout. But the
radical Islamists went way beyond devout. Made a wild-eyed Pentecostal here
look weak and submissive by comparison. There is just_no_dealing with these
people. I could get along with damn near anybody back in those days.
Appeasement simply will not work and will be seen as weakness. I was at a
loss to figure out where all this malignant hatred came from, as were the
other Americans and Europeans that I worked with. But I'm convinced it
started in the mosques and found fertile soil in the young and poor who had
nothing else to believe in. If you'll notice, we had no significant
military presence in the Middle East during the time I was there. It is
what it is and now their numbers have grown to the point that they're
organized enough to attack us here. Every time our troops send a herd of
them to Allah, it makes my day.
And from what I saw of the typical Arab male, given a chance, they'll build
Iraq into a place where they can raise their families in peace. Nobody is
cramming anything down there throats, politically. And I'm not good at this
politcal bullshit either, Harold. But I know what I lived among.