OzOne wrote:
A trap that many westerners fall into.
Because the Arabic states are sand....it doesn't mean that the people
are any less capable than anyone else.

Those "ragheads" dress the way they do because they're smart....


I don't think they're stupid at all. In fact I think they
are very intelligent and subtle, and in the Big Game of
realpolitik they have outplayed the West for years.

OTOH I don't think they have anybody with the knowledge &
experience to make any meaningful analysis of watching
carrier flight deck ops. As Gilligan says, they flew
F-14s.... decades ago, and not off carriers... I bet there's
nobody from the Shah's military left. That's not saying
they're stupid, that's saying that they just don't have
carriers or people who are experienced naval aviation intel
specialists.

DSK