"Douglas D. Anderson" <dda@rr.rochester.com> wrote in message

Way back then, in the dawn of prehistory, in the misty, nearly forgotten
Gulf War, Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Americans were duly informed
that they did not really understand what was happening, because Islamic
thinking, Islamic values, were so alien the Western mind. Each network had
it's own dark skinned Doctor, with a funny Muslim name, from some major
and prestigious University, explaining what it all means, in terms which

the

average dunderhead would be sure to be impressed by, yet even more
confused and feeling incapable of ever grasping.
A decade later, and Shazaym! Surprise surprise surprise.... today,

everyone

is an expert, every blonde bimbo news anchorwoman from Peoria fresh
out of radio school is an expert, ready to debate what the whole thing

_really_

means, and arguing what the Islamic world is going to do next, based on

the

deepest sort of insight and wisdom that only the average television viewer
possesses. There's a whole mob of experts, everyone in television and

radio,

everyone in the government, every talk show host and caller. It's amazing
what ten years of television viewing can do.
Which leads me to wonder about the fate of those dark skinned Doctors
we once relied on for our faint glimmerings of understanding, ten years

ago.

Do those poor souls still have jobs, or are they one more casualty of the
Bush administration?

No the Clinton Admin. becaus of the Government cutbacks. Its okay though
they are collecting the american dream of a big welfare check for no work.
Or they all work in 7\11s or cabs in New York.