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2007-01-07 Arabia

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Posted by john 2007-01-07 14:04|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The lack of understanding of so many things ... economics, history, technology is so breathtaking..

...and what is this obsession with ruling the world?

Posted by john 2007-01-07 14:11|| 2007-01-07 14:11|| Front Page Top

#2 The future of the Arabs is grim.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-01-07 14:35|| 2007-01-07 14:35|| Front Page Top

#3 If the situation continues in this manner, Arabs will lose what remains of their riches, which are dwindling without achieving the minimum degree of protection for their homelands, which are exposed to the threat of invasion and direct occupation.

Without oil nobody would want their stinking shithole land, even if the Arabs weren't there. What a fantasy. They are destined to squander their resources, get a few million (or more?) Arabs nuked by stupid decisions, and still not be able to build a microwave oven (as someone else so eloquently commented here). Their Imams and Mullahs will keep them ignorant and rabid (and unvaccinated) til a plague wipes out the remainder, and eventually, they'll be gone, leaving the Earth a better place without them. Good luck, Ummah, you deserve your future, and you can always blame the Joooooos

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-07 14:37|| 2007-01-07 14:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Your future is a return to the barren desert rat heritage you've always had. You have no future, which is very fortunate for civilzation. When we weaken the oil lobby and turn to other energy sources, you will be broke within a few years buying simple food. You have none and no ability to sustain yourselves. We'll drain you within a very few years. Then, we'll piss on you and forget your very existence.

Posted by SpecOp35 2007-01-07 14:47|| 2007-01-07 14:47|| Front Page Top

#5 As a joke it's old and geeky, but also rather prophetic:

Q: Why are there no Arabs on Star Trek?
A: Because it takes place in the future.

Posted by SteveS 2007-01-07 15:41|| 2007-01-07 15:41|| Front Page Top

#6 For college English 101, this is a perfect model of essay rambling. He may well have an argument in here, but you'd have to sort past a mess to find it. Must've been that dang "flowery language" again.

Posted by Jules 2007-01-07 16:26|| 2007-01-07 16:26|| Front Page Top

#7 you will be broke within a few years buying simple food.

Nope. Things rarely happen that rapidly in the world of economics (financial markets that are subject to the momentary hysteria of crowds are different). Ask anyone who's watched an incompetent management destroy a good company. It takes time.

The Arabs have already started to go broke. They can no longer buy whatever they want whenever they want. And the author knows it as does everyones else in the ME. But they wouldn't do anything when they had the excess cash, so they certainly won't now. So they'll have a slow, painful descent into poverty. Little islands of royal wealth surrounded by oceans of increasingly turbulent poverty. We all know how that ends. Just like any other third world cesspool abandoned by its tin horn dictator for his Swiss bank accounts. But it was fun while it lasted. It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of swine.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-01-07 16:50|| 2007-01-07 16:50|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm still reminded of Michael Yon's "Empty Jars©"

Posted by Mullah Richard 2007-01-07 17:32|| 2007-01-07 17:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Post WWII Japan started with nothing, worked hard, educated their children and became a wealthy highly advanced 21st century power. The Arab world started with vast oil wealth and is headed in the opposite direction. If the good Dr. Al-Magaleh is an example of scholarship in the Arab world, it's easy to see why.

Posted by DMFD 2007-01-07 18:10|| 2007-01-07 18:10|| Front Page Top

#10 The Japanese had a culture that valued learning and hard work. Japan had a history of making things.

The total number of books translated into Arabic yearly is no more than 330, or one-fifth of those translated in a small country like Greece.
(UN Arab Human Development Report).

There is no scientific research, all skilled labor is imported. Most manual labor is imported.

Arabs do not make things. The much vaunted great age of islam coincided with their conquest of other peoples and assimilation of the knowledge of others - Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Indians.
When conquest ceased, all Arab advances also ceased.

Posted by john 2007-01-07 18:24|| 2007-01-07 18:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Arabs do not invent things, other than conspiracy theories, at which, they are masters

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-07 18:33|| 2007-01-07 18:33|| Front Page Top

#12 At first I wondered why this story didn't have a Rantburg Sympathy Meter. Then I wondered if that was a sufficiently definite statement of my utter lack of concern for "Dr." Al-Maqaleh and his fellow savages. Therefore I propose (drumroll, please)...

The Rantburg Give-A-Shit Meter.

Posted by RIcky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2007-01-07 19:16|| 2007-01-07 19:16|| Front Page Top

#13 Dr, The answer doesn't have to be long.

The Arabs are hundreds of years behind the west and only have been recently exposed to the technology. They have squandered their oil wealth and Arabs nations. They're just irresponsible and their pride is hurt.

Now they're trying to bum them off Iran because they're too stupid to figure it out.

Stupid people shouldn't own dooms day devices.

Posted by Spomort Greling4204 2007-01-07 22:06|| 2007-01-07 22:06|| Front Page Top

#14 Yep. Can't get enough of them "Muslim scholars".
Piss piss moan whine whine whine...

Posted by tu3031 2007-01-07 22:10|| 2007-01-07 22:10|| Front Page Top

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