Posted on 09/13/2001 9:06:43 PM PDT by Heisenburger
Eisenhower, when dealing with the Arabs in Algiers during Operation Torch in North Africa, wrote of the Arabs:
"Arabs are a very uncertain quantity, explosive and full of prejudices. Many things done here that look queer are just to keep the Arabs from blazing up into revolt. We sit on a boiling kettle!"
You can call it racist if you want. Though I don't believe it necessarily applies to Americanized Arabs over here, I believe our experiences this week and in the past have shown his quote to be very, very true.
What quaint language! Wonder what he was referring to?
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