(June 11, 2012 at 6:47 am)Ace Otana Wrote: You can take the tribesman out of the tribe but you can't take the tribe out of the tribesman. Or, you can take a tribe out of the jungle or desert but you can't take the jungle or desert out of the tribe.
They're still in the dark ages. To them technology is witchcraft, democracy is heresy, knowledge is evil, reason is madness and thought is an untried exercise.
What do you expect from those Neanderthals?
Generalize much?
I find this power play between Iran and Iraq to be fascinating.
Al-Sadr's forcing of his senior staff to sign blood oaths to him prior to his departure for Iran is unexpected. I wonder if it is part of a contingency plan of some sort.
Slave to the Patriarchy no more