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It's okay, Germany, Ricky Bobby is all over your problem.

I'll note that this may be the case for some, but many Marine veterans I know who have just returned from a third deployment had some rather, shall we say, insensitive things to say about Iraqis. To...

Sarajevo - One should note that for all the "massacres" and "abusing", which there have been in Iraq and Afghanistan, there has been far less of this in almost any counterinsurgency war on record.
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Hmmm ... let me just say that in USMC recruit training and at ITB, the NCOs who conduct the training do not practice much racial sensitivity towards people of Middle Eastern extraction or Muslim...

That's sort of what makes it bizarre - but I have no idea about racial politics in Germany or where it would come from.



This is true. Lots of the Southerners who made fun of black or Hispanic...

Listening to Germans saying "mother####er!" is just funny. :D

Let me just say I am shocked, shocked! to find racism in the armed forces.

Goesh,

I grew up in a part of Brooklyn that most NYPD cops will not venture into alone. Let's just say that when I saw the French "riots" on TV, I laughed pretty hard. Burning cars? Are you...

I believe it pretty much sums up Bernard Lewis' level of hysteria and detachment from the real world.

This is a man who proclaimed that the proper solution to our Mesopotamian governance problem...

I see --- so we are actually pretty much in total agreement about compensation, then.

I would not use the word "arrested" because these men were taken into a system that was explicitly extra-legal...

120mm, I think the main accusation in Maher Arar and Khaled el-Masri is that these men were kidnapped and then rendered to Syria and Afghanistan, respectively, where they both say they were tortured...

That el-Masri was released (apparently dumped off on some street in Albania, oddly) and that Chancellor Merkel feels comfortable stating that Condoleeza Rice told her that el-Masri was innocent...