We Fight Them Over There … And Invite Them Over Here

The Stiletto Blog ^ | August 26, 2009 | The Stiletto

[theothercheek]

On the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the U.S. The Stiletto wondered why President George W. Bush was expanding a program that brought young Saudi men to study in our universities – quintupling the number to 15,000: "The Stiletto doubts that exposing young Saudis to American education and culture will make them more sympathetic to us – it may well have the opposite effect, and reinforce the fundamentalist Muslim view of America as a decadent and immoral society."

Well, guess what Khalid Shaikh Mohammed told CIA interrogators about the effect that an American college education had on him?

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[Recon Dad]

Mohammed told interrogators he had minimal contact with Americans while attending North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, but that those contacts convinced him that the U.S. was a “debauched and racist country.”

How would we expect Mohammed to react in seeing all these Americans eating nothing but pulled pork BBQ in the capital of BBQ!
He should have gone to Texas where BBQ is mostly beef.

[CPOSharky]

They have to have someplace to have their adolescent drinking and whoring spree before becoming ‘chaste’ adults in the muslime world.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

It is a lot harder for them to be insulated over here then back home. The idea is that they will see all sorts of things here that will give them perspective.

As an example, Japan’s Admiral Yamamoto was educated at Harvard and the US Naval War College, and having seen the US, did everything he could to persuade his government to avoid attacking it, because he had the perspective to know that it would be a very, very bad idea.

But none of his peers or subordinates had been to the US, so he was overwhelmed and overruled. Yet he knew from the very beginning that Japan would most likely lose.

What most of us would *think* foreigners see when they come to the US is not necessarily what they find most interesting. Often they are startled by the lack of common graft and corruption. There is an absence of segregation of many kinds. No obvious classes or castes. Women are not second class citizens, and male foreigners quickly learn the vast majority are not prostitutes, either.

The Hollywood illusion, that America is populated by gangsters and cowboys, is quickly dispelled. There is rarely gunfire, and look as hard as they can, not a cowboy to be seen in most of the US.

And having seen this, and much, much more, eventually most of them go home, except for those who having seen America, truly do not want to go home ever again.