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Yet again, you ignore the fact that all of our potential enemies are not Arabic. And not knowing Arabic doesn't mean you don't understand the Arabic threat.
Yes, I'm ignoring it because you flat-out LIED and said that I've completely disregarded any other threat in the world besides Arabs. Remember this exchange? Page 112.
Me: The article says that Goss admitted not having "the cultural background". Don't you think that it would be helpful to have an idea of the mindset of the modern Arabic terrorist when you're running the agency that is supposed to protect the USA? Call me cynical, but when the new CIA head admits this, it doesn't instill hope that we will be protected from the bad guys.
You: Supposing all the threats the U.S. are going to face are strictly Arabic in nature is just as short-sided as supposing no group or nation posed a reasonable threat to the U.S. after the U.S.S.R. disbanded.
What you typed was in DIRECT response to what I typed. Note that nowhere in MY post did I say that the only threat is from Arabs.
In the article (if you had read it) he was very clearly referring to an Arabic background. You omitting this to pretend you were saying something else doesn't change what he said.
No, I based what I said very clearly on the article and the alleged comments made by Gross, not pretensions you made up by posting a selective quote about a "cultural background", leaving out the context where he very clearly refers to Arabic cultural backgrounds.
The article, and the subject of this conversation, however, only mentions Gross not having an Arabic background. He doesn't say he lacks any other cultural background.
I can't believe just how far you are willing to go to attempt to prove a weak point. Now I'm a racist because I didn't acknowledge your lies about what I "supposedly" said.
You're criticizing Gross as not being qualified based on his alleged comments by Michael Moore. In the transcript of the alleged comments he only criticizes himself for not having a background in Arabic cultures. He doesn't say any cultures whatsoever. So, if you're deeming him unfit for the comments he made based on him not having the appropriate cultural background, you're criticizing him for claiming to not have a strong background in Arabic studies. You can't just make up facts but it seems you keep on trying anyway.
Blah, blah, blah blah blah...zzzzzz.
Way to prove me wrong.
Go back and read the source document (a.k.a. the entire basis for this conversation) go back three spaces and roll the dice again.
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