This interview Mr. Tomorrow found with Daniel Pipes —:
Q: What is the biggest lesson you have learned from the Iraq war?
PIPES: The ingratitude of the Iraqis for the extraordinary favor we gave them.
— raises an important question: have the wogs always been this ungrateful? The historical evidence indicates they have. Henry Morton Stanley knew this; here’s what he wrote about his 190 African servants on his 1871 trip to find Dr. Livingstone:
“The blacks give me an immense amount of trouble; they are too ungrateful to suit my fancy.”
Also like Iraqis, Stanley’s servants had a tendency to die in copious, ungrateful quantities.
FURTHERMORE: Seymour Hersh:
The Patai book [“The Arab Mind”], an academic told me, was “the bible of the neocons on Arab behavior.†In their discussions, he said, two themes emerged—“one, that Arabs only understand force…”
“The savage only respects force, power, boldness, and decision…”