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I don't fear for our future or for Israel's - I fear for Arabia's future. I truly do.
Three Soldier Dad...
All the best, Chuck
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I earned a graduate degree in Applied Linguistics back in the early 80s. I used to teach English to students in the Applied English Center at the University of Kansas...Several of my students were members and/or sympathizers of the Hezbollah from Lebanon and Syria, some were Palestinian radicals. I remember them arguing vociferiously with me and some of the other American students; they breathing their threats on the havoc that America would face if America didn't change its policies in the Mideast. I remember listening for quite a few hours of this day-after-day ....
One day I just blurted out -
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"You know America is not easily provoked, but if the radicals you speak about ever really hurt us I think all the guilty cities and countries will be wiped out in a matter of weeks."
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They got sober, but one laughed and said "How? " I said,
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"We have a large and well equiped Army -- But, if some crazy country or radicals really hurt us, where we now feel like we are fighting for our survival - We have lots of nuclear weapons and we've used them already when we felt threatened. We're a violent country when provoked - we'd use them again if someone ever succeeds in really hurting us - If it were kill or be killed - We'd wipe out whole populations that sought to do us harm. We would reach them with fire..."
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They all became quiet...
I had a similar conversation in Paris with a French Hotel owner in 2003. He sneered that the U.S. better be careful cause the world was sick of their hegomonic behavior - "Some day you're going to wake up and someone is REALLY going to rock you." This condescending, arrogant frog really got my goat - He said this as if the bad news would be limitted to America. Same thing as with the Arabs back in 1983, only this time I kind of snapped. I said (this is a close paraphrase),
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"You know we're a pretty nice people, and we can accept that people don't like us, but if someone ever succeeds in really hurting us - - I mean hurts us bad, like we fear for our very survival, like you say "they rock us" - We'll do more than rock their world - we'll shatter it like a clay pitcher - whole regions will go to glass. We got nukes, lots of them, and we know where the buttons are. Americans are violent - And, you better watch what you say - we're nice - but, we're listening. If anyone ever hits us, we're coming after the talkers first - guilty or not. This may be revolting to you - But, Americans will skip the idea of hurting others when its survival is threatened and go right to the application of extreme violence. It won't be a hegomonic event - it will be a liquidation event."
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When provoked, and when threatened, America has the capacity for some uncommon violence...and the capacity to project uncommon violence.
I fear for Arabia's future. I truly do. The Persians, too...Their radicals are doing a lot of talking. Very dangerous.
Three Soldier Dad...
All the best, Chuck