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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: kumar who wrote (1051)12/27/2002 5:59:07 AM
From: William B. Kohn  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 15987
 
some, not as many as you! as a child I lived in a predominantly arab village near Tel Aviv for about six months. When I came back to America, I had forgotten english and my only fluent language was Arabic, although I don't know more than a few words nowadays. Pity, I'd love to help the CIA if I had a better grasp of that language.

bill

i don't have much of a pull from those days.

Arguement is pointless, we see this particular topic differently. good luck on your Godfather quest :-) bill



To: kumar who wrote (1051)12/27/2002 6:57:43 AM
From: zonder  Respond to of 15987
 
"Avoir Une Fille"

On a vaguely related theme, I am listening to the soundtrack of the musical "Romeo & Juliette" now, and there is a song in there called "Avoir Une Fille" ("Having a Girl (Daughter)"). Part of it goes:

Avoir une fille
C'est plus jamais
Traiter les femmes
Comme je l'ai fait

(Having a girl
Is never again
Treating women
Like I have done)

I think living/growing up with a people gives one the human insight that prevents us from gross generalizations, offhand remarks, and especially those aimed at their destruction.



To: kumar who wrote (1051)12/27/2002 12:33:05 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 15987
 
How many days in your life have you lived amongst arab/muslim people ?


Kumar, I notice quite a few posts from you lately that take the position that, if you have not experienced something personally, you cannot have a meaningful opinion about it. I suggest you rethink that assumption.