RE: Merc Guild

John,

The point I was trying to make is this.  When you make a blanket
statement
about an entire race of people that is called racism.  As I said your
experience and the evidence may point that way but it still does not
mean
that "All Arabs make poor tankers".

It is the blanket statement I disagree with.

If you would like to discuss this further I would be glad to take it off
list:

Rmako@coqui.net

Thanks

Bob Makowsky

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
[mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of John Atkinson
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 7:37 PM
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: RE: Merc Guild

--- Bob Makowsky <rmakowsky@yahoo.com> wrote:
> John,
>
> I listen to you on this list and hold my replies but
> I have to respond to
> this.  It may be that all Arabs that you have met or
> know of are poor
> tankers.  However this does not mean that "All
> Arabs" are poor tankers.

When was the last time an Arab nation won a tank
fight?	Fer crying out loud, they can't beat Israelis
driving Shermans with T-55s and the advantage of
numbers.  They have brigades chopped up by AMX-13
batallions.  The Lybian tankers got clobbered by
Chad--who's main force units were driving Toyota
pickup trucks with Milan launchers bolted to the beds.
 And the performance of the Iraqi Army was so bad that
the only troops who were even slowed by their defenses
were Syrians and Egyptians.

Sure, there are US tankers of Arab descent--but the
vast majority of them are no more culturally Arab than
I am.

John

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