It has been enlightening to me. I'm originally from the Middle East. I was born in Jordan, and I lived there for about 21 years before I moved to the United States and I just want to share with you my perspective of the way people in the Middle East and in the Moslem world view us. They will hate us forever. The public image that we have is pretty bad. There is nothing we can do to improve that unless we do two things: Either try to convert them into democracy, or have them respect us. Respect is the only way.
I really think it's not going to change anything. The fact is that if you read the newspaper that's controlled, all the media that's being controlled by the governments of these Middle Eastern nations, they're all basically saying how the West is bad, how the United States is the root of evil; they're trying to influence, you know, the world, they're trying to take over. I mean if you look at all the propaganda that's being spewed over there, 'til today, I read it off the Internet, and I keep up with it, it is just appalling to me.
Absolutely. Mogadishu, Beirut. I mean they have that experience in the past -- and they feel like, any time we parade American soldiers being killed or executed, we going to feel like, "Oh, we need to pull out of there We can't keep going. This is ridiculous," you know? That's the understanding that they have, and this appeasement policy is not going to work. It's not going to change their minds. They've been brainwashed from a younger age, since they are in school, and in the media, everywhere, in mosques, everywhere, everybody is basically saying how to United States is so bad, how the West, you know, hate Moslems, and you're not going to change that overnight. I think strength, democracy is the only way to change that.
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