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Middle Eastern Incompetence

I have been around a lot of dispensationalists who point to Israel’s “against all odds” victories in wars with Arab states as proof of God’s blessing, but I’m not impressed.  There have been greater victories in our own history, against worthier opponents- the average American Christian doesn’t really understand the advantage that 110+ IQ Jews with modern weapons have over 90 IQ Arabs with rusting Soviet junk; they’re picturing scenes from the Old Testament when Israel really was disadvantaged and needed God’s intervention to win.  Similarly, I was just starting to think that Iran’s president had something up his sleeve, with the escalation of rhetoric that (in my mind) would only make sense if he had a surprise prepared.  But, of course, in the end it’s just another example of Middle Eastern incompetence, as Iran apparently hasn’t been paying its bills.  Let me get this straight: you’re picking a fight with a nuclear power, and you most need nuclear capability yourself to ensure your sovereignty; you have gobs of oil money, but you don’t pay the friggin’ nuclear fuel bill??!!  This also explains why the richest region in the world needs good old boys from Schlumberger and Chevron to pump their oil for them, and why 9/11 hasn’t been repeated…I think the Arab/Muslim “threat” has been overblown, especially if we simply deported all of them through a sane immigration policy.  Then we’d have no need to be in Iraq, foolishly trying to turn people whose idea of justice is a severed head into Jeffersonian democrats…

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2 Responses to “Middle Eastern Incompetence”

  1. Lindsay Says:
    March 20th, 2007 at 3:07 pm

    Do you want a dialog on the dispensationalist side of the issue? =)

    I don’t know - even if they are dumber than your average bear, they’re still crazy enough to make me nervous. Sometimes dumb and crazy is a very scary combination.

  2. Tom Says:
    March 20th, 2007 at 3:21 pm

    If we weren’t binding ourselves with political correctness, that’s IF, they wouldn’t be much of a threat.  Bush and Rove pandered to Muslim voters in early 2001 by REMOVING racial and ethnic profiling as a tool to prevent terrorism on airplanes. Read this chilling article about Atta and 9/11 before he got on the plane:

    http://isteve.blogspot.com/2006/09/political-correctness-saved-mohammed.html

    “Michael Tuohey was going to work like he had for 37 years, but little did he know that this day would change his life forever. On September 11, 2001, Tuohey, a ticket agent for U.S. Airways, checked in terrorist Mohammed Atta for a flight that started a chain of events that would change history.

    Tuohey was working the U.S. Airways first-class check-in desk when two men, Atta and his companion Abdul Azziz-Alomari, approached his counter. From all outward appearances, the men seemed to be normal businessmen, but Tuohey felt something was wrong.

    “I got an instant chill when I looked at [Atta]. I got this grip in my stomach and then, of course, I gave myself a political correct slap…I thought, ‘My God, Michael, these are just a couple of Arab businessmen.’”

    Tuohey also told David Hench of the Portland Press Herald:

    Then his eyes locked on Atta.

    “It just sent chills through you. You see his picture in the paper (now). You see more life in that picture than there is in flesh and blood,” Tuohey said.

    Then Tuohey went through an internal debate that still haunts him.

    “I said to myself, ‘If this guy doesn’t look like an Arab terrorist, then nothing does.’ Then I gave myself a mental slap, because in this day and age, it’s not nice to say things like this,” he said. “You’ve checked in hundreds of Arabs and Hindus and Sikhs, and you’ve never done that. I felt kind of embarrassed.”

    This year [2001], both Bush and his Attorney General John Ashcroft have called for an end to racial profiling.

    The Federal Aviation Administration provides airline and airport personnel with the Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening system to help them identify suspicious travelers. It relies on a secret profile of the characteristics of typical hijackers and terrorists.

    Nonetheless, the Bush Administration publicly agrees with the civil rights organizations that even a nonracial airport profiling system that had merely a disparate impact on Arabs and Muslims would be objectionable. Secretary Mineta said, “We also want to assure that in practice, the system does not disproportionately select members of any particular minority group.” Of course, if Arabs and Muslims are disproportionately more likely to hijack airliners, and the profiling system does not end up disproportionately targeting them, then system wouldn’t work very well at preventing hijackings.

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