"After all, they know their Arab neighbors better than a bunch of cosplay socialists in Brooklyn and Berkeley."
Precisely.
Perhaps because I was born into a Greek-American family at a time when family friends who had to flee Turkey during the "exchange of populations" were still alive, I understand a bit more about that part of the world than most Americans. Trickiness and revenge and adherence to strict religious traditions are virtues. Justice is tribal, women are lesser beings, non-Muslims are infidels. Our State Department is naive if it thinks otherwise. Every-day Americans can have no idea.
Land is everything -- even for Greeks too. Turn your back, and your neighbors will steal your olive trees, then your whole stremma, then your house.
The Levant is not New York City or Boston or Seattle. I don't think the youngsters here who on Fridays march for transgender rights and on Saturdays march for Hamas understand the disconnect in their own heads.
Muslims scorn our Progressives as deviants but gladly use them.
If our young people hate militantly born-again Christians here in the United States, and they do, and perhaps rightly so, why are they so enamored of Muslims?
"After all, they know their Arab neighbors better than a bunch of cosplay socialists in Brooklyn and Berkeley."
Precisely.
Perhaps because I was born into a Greek-American family at a time when family friends who had to flee Turkey during the "exchange of populations" were still alive, I understand a bit more about that part of the world than most Americans. Trickiness and revenge and adherence to strict religious traditions are virtues. Justice is tribal, women are lesser beings, non-Muslims are infidels. Our State Department is naive if it thinks otherwise. Every-day Americans can have no idea.
Land is everything -- even for Greeks too. Turn your back, and your neighbors will steal your olive trees, then your whole stremma, then your house.
The Levant is not New York City or Boston or Seattle. I don't think the youngsters here who on Fridays march for transgender rights and on Saturdays march for Hamas understand the disconnect in their own heads.
Muslims scorn our Progressives as deviants but gladly use them.
If our young people hate militantly born-again Christians here in the United States, and they do, and perhaps rightly so, why are they so enamored of Muslims?