(January 2, 2015 at 11:09 am)abaris Wrote: You know, more than a decade ago, I watched an interview with the CIA resident being stationed in Pakistan at the times of the Soviet invasion. He was asked about the support the US gave to the insurgency and the first words of his reply were: "As a christian, I don't understand these people."
Really, that's the best guy they had for sending into that region? I guess this one sentence says about all about willful and disrespectful ignorance.
That's a poster example of our foreign policy. We never approach any culture with respect. Rather than put someone well-versed in Middle East culture and relations we just pop in and are like, "Have some 'Murica, bitches!"
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
