[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

The earlier Marine patrol had left rations for the three, but the Egyptians apparently had not understood it was food, or how to open the thick brown plastic pouches. The men had not eaten for days.

Starving and lacking the curiosity to aid their own survival sort of sums it up about the masses of illiterate Muslims in the middle east.

[smcmike]

"Starving and lacking the curiosity to aid their own survival sort of sums it up about the masses of illiterate Muslims in the middle east."

They are sick old men. I think perhaps you are generalizing a bit much here... It seems to me that most middle easterners have been aiding their survival for the past 10,000 years pretty well.