Yeah, tell that to the Danish cartoonists who all had to go into hiding. Including the one who refused to draw a picture of “the Prophet.”
And that Hamas victory must be all in our heads. :rolleyes:
It’s not the Arab street we’re worried about, it’s the lunatic extreme. What you’ might call the Arab Cul-de-Sac. Despite the success of Operation Get the Brown People, the world tends to take notice when those people get angry. I wonder why. Must be because nobody cares what they’re saying. :rolleyes:
The influence of what you’re calling the ‘Arab Street’ is, with great luck, temporary. Well. No. It’s temporary, one way or another. As soon as we end our dependence on oil, their power essentially vanishes, by and large.
And we’re going to have to, sooner or later. Iran, for example, threatening our energy supply, just makes it sooner.