Comments on: This Is Not A Good Thing http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/05/21/this-is-not-a-good-thing-2/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:00:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Gaius http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/05/21/this-is-not-a-good-thing-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3058 Gaius Mon, 22 May 2006 01:04:36 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/05/21/this-is-not-a-good-thing-2/#comment-3058 Brian, the Saudis are supplying these textbooks all over the world. I am not at all sure they are not being brought here. I don't think that is a safe assumption. Brian, the Saudis are supplying these textbooks all over the world. I am not at all sure they are not being brought here. I don’t think that is a safe assumption.

]]> By: Brian DeSpain http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/05/21/this-is-not-a-good-thing-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3056 Brian DeSpain Mon, 22 May 2006 00:54:32 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/05/21/this-is-not-a-good-thing-2/#comment-3056 Don - These are schools in Saudi Arabia - not schools here in the United States. This highlights an obvious problem. Saudi Arabia isn't our ally the GWOT. Don – These are schools in Saudi Arabia – not schools here in the United States. This highlights an obvious problem. Saudi Arabia isn’t our ally the GWOT.

]]> By: Jim O'Hara http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/05/21/this-is-not-a-good-thing-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3048 Jim O'Hara Sun, 21 May 2006 22:36:52 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/05/21/this-is-not-a-good-thing-2/#comment-3048 Would you suggest reprisals against the Saudis for teaching this xenophobic bunk? Forget about it. The Saudis have the Bush administration in their back pocket. Heck, Bush told the Saudi Prince Bandar about our plans to invade Iraq before he told Colin Powell! In return, the Saudis flooded the market with cheap oil during the run up to the 2004 election, so the Dems couldn't use that as a talking point against Bush. I bet those Saudis are cleaning up now with oil prices at $70 a barrel. Ever wonder what those 20 odd pages of the 9/11 commission report that were withheld due to "nation security concerns" had to say about Saudi financing of the 9/11 hijackers? This xenophobic teaching should come as no surprise. Remember when Commies were doing their version of "permanent revolution" -- forcibly spreading the superior (in their minds) communist form of government to countries like Afghanistan? The Muslims reacted quite violently to the imposition of that foreign concept. Now that Communism has been exposed as the economic and socio-political farce that it is, it's time for the West to try and impose its version of "permanent revolution" on the middle east - Democracy. Is it any wonder that the same levels of hostility still exist? Thankfully the US has never been occupied (and I pray it never will), but one can imagine hostility to foreigners and their ideas greatly increasing if that happened. Heck, look at hostility towards people who sneak into this country not to change the political and religious institutions, but just to work to feed their family. Lots of hostility. Now, imagine they came with guns blazing and a superior (in their mind) form of government. How would Americans react to that? Americans would fight tooth and nail to keep "American values" and violently reject foreign values being imposed on us. Keep that though in mind the next time you want to invade a foreign land with a different value system. Meanwhile Swedes and the Swiss continue to live freely and are not attacked by supposed "freedom hating" radicals. It might have something to do with their conservative "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none" philosophy. Didn't some American say that quote at some point? ;-) Jim Would you suggest reprisals against the Saudis for teaching this xenophobic bunk? Forget about it. The Saudis have the Bush administration in their back pocket. Heck, Bush told the Saudi Prince Bandar about our plans to invade Iraq before he told Colin Powell! In return, the Saudis flooded the market with cheap oil during the run up to the 2004 election, so the Dems couldn’t use that as a talking point against Bush. I bet those Saudis are cleaning up now with oil prices at $70 a barrel. Ever wonder what those 20 odd pages of the 9/11 commission report that were withheld due to “nation security concerns” had to say about Saudi financing of the 9/11 hijackers?

This xenophobic teaching should come as no surprise. Remember when Commies were doing their version of “permanent revolution” — forcibly spreading the superior (in their minds) communist form of government to countries like Afghanistan? The Muslims reacted quite violently to the imposition of that foreign concept. Now that Communism has been exposed as the economic and socio-political farce that it is, it’s time for the West to try and impose its version of “permanent revolution” on the middle east – Democracy. Is it any wonder that the same levels of hostility still exist?

Thankfully the US has never been occupied (and I pray it never will), but one can imagine hostility to foreigners and their ideas greatly increasing if that happened. Heck, look at hostility towards people who sneak into this country not to change the political and religious institutions, but just to work to feed their family. Lots of hostility. Now, imagine they came with guns blazing and a superior (in their mind) form of government. How would Americans react to that? Americans would fight tooth and nail to keep “American values” and violently reject foreign values being imposed on us. Keep that though in mind the next time you want to invade a foreign land with a different value system.

Meanwhile Swedes and the Swiss continue to live freely and are not attacked by supposed “freedom hating” radicals. It might have something to do with their conservative “Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none” philosophy. Didn’t some American say that quote at some point? ;-)

Jim

]]> By: Don Singleton http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/05/21/this-is-not-a-good-thing-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3037 Don Singleton Sun, 21 May 2006 20:29:02 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/05/21/this-is-not-a-good-thing-2/#comment-3037 <strong>Saudi textbook...</strong> We should send people into the schools to see for certain what is being taught, and if these accusations are true, the schools should be closed, and the teachers deported.... Saudi textbook…

We should send people into the schools to see for certain what is being taught, and if these accusations are true, the schools should be closed, and the teachers deported….

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