TRAGEDY OF THE ARABS

New York Post ^ | March 30, 2003 | RALPH PETERS

[Hildy]

Isn't Morocco really considered more Northern Africa?

[Cicero]

Excellent analysis. God bless the New York Post. Another year or two and they will pass the NY Times on the intellectual as well as the moral level.

[Cicero]

It takes more than a mathematics department to make a great university, although that's a good start. You need the basic arts and sciences as well, history, world literature, the classics, philosophy--you name it.

[UnChained]

The absurdities broadcast and printed throughout the Arab world are symptoms of a once-great culture's moral desolation

Is there a parallel here in France's hatred of the English and the US? French was once the language of culture and commerce. They've lost their greatness and are now full of resentment at the new "lingua franqa"

[logan five]

absolutely spot on.... a simply outstanding analysis.. my thoughts -- and general approach to most things "insane" ... captured exactly but expressed with more focus and more cogently than my skills will admit....

[razorbak]

Many Arabs who know the truth play to the street to stay in power, just like "black leaders" in America. And they keep their constituents whipped up into a perpetual frenzied state of paranoia, hatred and envy.

[Stultis]

Warrior/scholar Ralph Peters nails it again!

[Mamzelle]

I taught Saudi and Iranian men in college classrooms for a couple years...though I was twenty at the time, and not unused to a little attention, I was continually uncomfortable with the odd way they looked at me. It wasn't your normal leer, which at least has a bit of wholesome good health about it--but this awful hatefulness mixed in. Like "I'll &^%$ you, then I'll kill you," kind of look. Shudder. And there were not a few gals taken with that kind of thing...

[skraeling]

>I taught Saudi and Iranian men in college classrooms for a couple years

So did I, and I found them to be "unserious" at best. One of them threatened to kill a fellow teacher if he failed him in a course.

[skraeling]

...their biggest concern after endless playing was in simply passing, for if they failed, their generous stipends from home would be cut off and they would be required to return home. Anything was better than that, even doing a little studying and attending class from time to time.

[Mamzelle]

Did you observe that there was a certain sort of female that seemed to gravitate to these students? These gals simply perplexed me, but I was too young to understand self-destructiveness, neurosis, and masochism, which form a strong impulse in so many women.

[skraeling]

Yep, they had their own set of groupies.

[Alouette]

Baghdad was once the center of Arab culture, of science and the arts, and a beacon of human progress.

That was B.M. (Before Mohammed)