"THE SHIFTING SANDS OF HELL"
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CHAPTER I
THE MIDDLE EAST!
THE MESS WE CREATED
THE MESS THEY CREATED
THE MESS IT REMAINS TO THIS DAY
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CHAPTER I
THE MIDDLE EAST!
THE MESS WE CREATED
THE MESS THEY CREATED
THE MESS IT REMAINS TO THIS DAY
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The Middle East is large and diverse and very complex
as are most geographical areas which comprise many different ethnic groups and cultures and languages.
Traditions and biases and religions vary widely
and often THAT breeds not just diversity but
animosities as well.
as are most geographical areas which comprise many different ethnic groups and cultures and languages.
Traditions and biases and religions vary widely
and often THAT breeds not just diversity but
animosities as well.
From what I know most Americans
(and maybe most Westerners)
look at the Middle East and see...
(and maybe most Westerners)
look at the Middle East and see...
ONE ethnic group, Arabs.
Everybody is Arab and Arabs are all alike.
Uh, NO.
Everybody is Arab and Arabs are all alike.
Uh, NO.
One people, one religion, one ethnicity.
One common background...
Again, emphatically NO.
One common background...
Again, emphatically NO.
Human beings can be SO ignorant.
We label people and like the Brits
one hundred years ago, we do so in incredible IGNORANCE. WHY? Cause we are LAZY. LAZY when it comes to learning about people.
We offer
hundreds of excuses
but it still boils down to laziness in America,
Europe, Asia.
We label people and like the Brits
one hundred years ago, we do so in incredible IGNORANCE. WHY? Cause we are LAZY. LAZY when it comes to learning about people.
We offer
hundreds of excuses
but it still boils down to laziness in America,
Europe, Asia.
So what IS the reality.
There are Arabs...yes, such as
the Sunni, Shia, Pashtun.
PLUS, the Kurds, Uzbekis
and others. The majority are Muslim
but not all, for there ARE Christians there
and others too.
ALL different and none of them
really like each other. Then there are the
Persians,(the Iranians).
You want to start a WAR?
Just call an Iranian an Arab.
THEY ARE NOT ARABS AND INTENSELY DISLIKE BEING LABELED THAT WAY. They see the ignorance in it and resent it and WELL THEY SHOULD.
You want to start a WAR?
Just call an Iranian an Arab.
THEY ARE NOT ARABS AND INTENSELY DISLIKE BEING LABELED THAT WAY. They see the ignorance in it and resent it and WELL THEY SHOULD.
ALL ONE COUNTRY, NO. But ALSO not the countries as they used to be. At the end of the British occupation of the entire Middle East, new country boundaries were drawn without ANY regard for or any knowledge of
the people who would have to live there. After DECADES of occupation, the Brits had NO clue about the people who they had been occupying and didn't care. They didn't give a shit about the damage, the LONG-TERM damage they were doing. They created ENTIRE COUNTRIES comprised of people who were traditionally ENEMIES. The Brits had NO understanding of the way Middle East commerce worked. How the politics worked. Had NO understanding of the TRIBAL cultures and the nature of them and the way THEY worked. Like the former Soviet Union and the Balkans, they just threw these people together and said ON THEIR WAY OUT THE DOOR, CYA. GOOD LUCK.
the people who would have to live there. After DECADES of occupation, the Brits had NO clue about the people who they had been occupying and didn't care. They didn't give a shit about the damage, the LONG-TERM damage they were doing. They created ENTIRE COUNTRIES comprised of people who were traditionally ENEMIES. The Brits had NO understanding of the way Middle East commerce worked. How the politics worked. Had NO understanding of the TRIBAL cultures and the nature of them and the way THEY worked. Like the former Soviet Union and the Balkans, they just threw these people together and said ON THEIR WAY OUT THE DOOR, CYA. GOOD LUCK.
What a bunch of SHITHEADS.
IGNORANT AND LAZY-MINDED.
IGNORANT AND LAZY-MINDED.
Course the Russians did no better,
AND WE HAVEN'T EITHER, sad to say...
but at least SOME OF US ARE TRYING,
especially a lot of our men and women in uniform.
They have done heroic work but also historic work
in trying to get to know and understand and appreciate the PEOPLE in the Stans, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq.
I BOW LOW to these HEROES, from America, Canada, Britain, Australia, Denmark, Germany and elsewhere.
I cannot condone nor defend the actions of the leaders, cults, warlords, the governments
nor the populations of the Middle East and what
THEY have done to destroy themselves
and their fellow Arabs etc.
TRUTH:
The Middle East was a TOTAL DISASTER...
LONG BEFORE the Brits showed up
and has remained one.
But the rest of the world
has done them no favors EITHER.
The Israelis keep building and the Arabs etc keep destroying. Sad fact but true.
The Middle East has NOTHING to be proud of, waging war against its own for a thousand years. The tribal hatreds might have seemed kewl 200 or 1000 years ago. We had them HERE, but WE outgrew them. The Middle East hasn't grown nor matured. NOW, thanks to the likes of Mustafa Kazemi, Ehsanullah Amiri and others, AND ME, maybe it will.
It will take courage and bravery. Mustafa, Ehsan, Ahmed Mukhtar have it in abundance. May God give that kind of courage to thousands that the EVIL which persists in the Middle East may be countered and destroyed so that Peace, Love, and freedom may finally prevail.
Later we will cover the pernicious assault on rights by the predominate religion in the region, Islam...and its fundamentalist practitioners.
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CHAPTER II
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
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AND WE HAVEN'T EITHER, sad to say...
but at least SOME OF US ARE TRYING,
especially a lot of our men and women in uniform.
They have done heroic work but also historic work
in trying to get to know and understand and appreciate the PEOPLE in the Stans, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq.
I BOW LOW to these HEROES, from America, Canada, Britain, Australia, Denmark, Germany and elsewhere.
I cannot condone nor defend the actions of the leaders, cults, warlords, the governments
nor the populations of the Middle East and what
THEY have done to destroy themselves
and their fellow Arabs etc.
TRUTH:
The Middle East was a TOTAL DISASTER...
LONG BEFORE the Brits showed up
and has remained one.
But the rest of the world
has done them no favors EITHER.
The Israelis keep building and the Arabs etc keep destroying. Sad fact but true.
The Middle East has NOTHING to be proud of, waging war against its own for a thousand years. The tribal hatreds might have seemed kewl 200 or 1000 years ago. We had them HERE, but WE outgrew them. The Middle East hasn't grown nor matured. NOW, thanks to the likes of Mustafa Kazemi, Ehsanullah Amiri and others, AND ME, maybe it will.
It will take courage and bravery. Mustafa, Ehsan, Ahmed Mukhtar have it in abundance. May God give that kind of courage to thousands that the EVIL which persists in the Middle East may be countered and destroyed so that Peace, Love, and freedom may finally prevail.
Later we will cover the pernicious assault on rights by the predominate religion in the region, Islam...and its fundamentalist practitioners.
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CHAPTER II
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
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"THE SHIFTING SANDS OF HELL"
by Dustybear
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