High Fives all around to everyone on this thread.
WTF, PEOPLE???!!!My Dad was born in '33, he was a little kid when Pearl Harbor happened but he remembers it well. By the time WWII ended he was going on 13 and had been brought up in a culture very different than the America of today. Even in the north, in his hometown then, 230 miles from Gettysburg in Salamanca, N.Y. there weren't black and white drinking fountains but there were unwritten rules and black or white, everyone knew their place. Blacks were outcast people who had to step into the street when whites approached on the sidewalk. Now they are Americans much more than they were at the time but still we are not at a point where everyone is the same. Blacks have always been a huge part of the American experience, they have earned their place at the table.
Arabs?
NO. Never registering more than a trace on the American scene and having decidedly polar views from the mainstream here they have come nowhere close to earning a place in the melting pot of America. Nor do they seek it. (same with the
30 MILLION illegal trespassing Mexicans).
In fact, they have always been an outstanding enemy of the United States, far predating our mid twentieth century support of Israel going at least as far back as the war with the Barbary Pirates of 1803. Always trouble and never cooperative on the world stage.
Their agenda has never wavered, dating back to the days of the Knights Templar and the Crusades. They hate us and want us dead. Period.
There is no room for discussion in that. It is what it is. Pure hatred with undying conviction to that end. We are on the same planet as them and as they see it, we need to go. Entirely. Gone.
This is unprecedented in that they not only want us all (anyone not Muslim and ethnically Arab) dead because we are not of their religion but also because we are not of their race. The Arab populations presently tolerate non Arab Muslims but openly state their end goal of no non Arab humans remaining in the ultimate victory over all other races for their God.
One religion, Muslim.
One race, Arabic.
One language, Arabic.
Everyone else, dust, victorious history beneath their feet.
