You know, looking at the second picture here, I couldn’t help but thinking:
"Are we sending the right message to Baghdad here?"
Oh, and Bush in Mongolia headline of the day so far:
"Bush drinks mare’s milk, avoids camels" (Good piece, BTW)
Say what you want about our head of state — he might not be good with names of foreign leaders or countries, but the man knows livestock.
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You know, looking at the second picture here, I couldn’t help but thinking:
“Are we sending the right message to Baghdad here?”
Give Dubya a break for once! The two are just basking in the glow of their affinity for invading Iraq with overwhelming force and then leaving it in a shambles.
Let them have their moment.
You know, I didnt get what you meant at first until I remembered Hulegu Khan, who invaded Baghdad in 1258, massacred its inhabitants, burned its famous libraries, destroyed its irrigation systems, and dealt a lethal blow to the then relatively cosmopolitan and advanced Arab civilization of the time. Arab & Islamic intellectual life has arguably never recovered since then.
Still though, since most of the Mongols who invaded that part of Asia eventually succumbed to Islam anyway, I wonder if the Arabs are really still going to hold a grudge about this.
Still though, since most of the Mongols who invaded that part of Asia eventually succumbed to Islam anyway, I wonder if the Arabs are really still going to hold a grudge about this.
Oh, I can assure you, the Arabs remember.
Nevertheless, I was just being sarcastic — I doubt the pic is going to get posted on the Al-Qaeda bulletin board.
Korea will turn into a very much pro-American country after next election. Use Koreans, who are of Mongol blood, to keep peace in MiddleEast and free Iranians.
The Marco Polo book I’m reading mentioned nothing of this!