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Rumsfeld a écrit dans une note interne en 2004 que trop souvent les Musulmans à cause de la rente pétrolière sont devenus allergiques à l'effort physique, conséquence ; ils importent des Asiatiques pour travailler à leur place, laissant la jeunesse de leur pays désoeuvrée, et une proie faile pour les radicaux. Il parlait surtout des pays du Golfe, mais on pourrait établir un parallele avec l'Algerie également.
Ce personage est une belle crapule mais je dois dire que c'est la première fois qu'il dit quelque chose de sensé. C'est mon avis.
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WASHINGTON - The White House on Thursday sympathized with Arab-Americans who took offense to a memo that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wrote saying that "oil wealth has made Muslims averse to physical labor."
Rumsfeld's belief is "not at all in line with the president's views," White House press secretary Dana Perino said.
As Pentagon chief, Rumsfeld wrote scores of internal memos which employees called "snowflakes." In May 2004, Rumsfeld wrote that oil wealth had left Muslims detached from the "reality of the work and investment that leads to wealth for the rest of the world."
"Too often Muslims are against physical labor, so they bring in Koreans and Pakistanis while their young people remain unemployed," Rumsfeld wrote in one of several memos published by The Washington Post. "An unemployed population is easy to recruit to radicalism."
Asked about Rumsfeld's memo, Perino acknowledged that some Arab-American groups took offense to his comment.
"We are aware that we have a lot of work to do in order to win hearts and minds across the Arab world and the Muslim world and I can understand why they would be offended by those comments," she said.
Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Rumsfeld's comment reflects the "stereotypical attitude" that led the United States to invade Iraq.
"Our policy was never based on reality," Hooper said. "It was based on the wild ideas of
those who wanted to invade the region. ... It shows you what kind of wrong-headed policymakers we had at the time."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071101/...j20kM0vVIGw_IE
Ce personage est une belle crapule mais je dois dire que c'est la première fois qu'il dit quelque chose de sensé. C'est mon avis.
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WASHINGTON - The White House on Thursday sympathized with Arab-Americans who took offense to a memo that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wrote saying that "oil wealth has made Muslims averse to physical labor."
Rumsfeld's belief is "not at all in line with the president's views," White House press secretary Dana Perino said.
As Pentagon chief, Rumsfeld wrote scores of internal memos which employees called "snowflakes." In May 2004, Rumsfeld wrote that oil wealth had left Muslims detached from the "reality of the work and investment that leads to wealth for the rest of the world."
"Too often Muslims are against physical labor, so they bring in Koreans and Pakistanis while their young people remain unemployed," Rumsfeld wrote in one of several memos published by The Washington Post. "An unemployed population is easy to recruit to radicalism."
Asked about Rumsfeld's memo, Perino acknowledged that some Arab-American groups took offense to his comment.
"We are aware that we have a lot of work to do in order to win hearts and minds across the Arab world and the Muslim world and I can understand why they would be offended by those comments," she said.
Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Rumsfeld's comment reflects the "stereotypical attitude" that led the United States to invade Iraq.
"Our policy was never based on reality," Hooper said. "It was based on the wild ideas of
those who wanted to invade the region. ... It shows you what kind of wrong-headed policymakers we had at the time."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071101/...j20kM0vVIGw_IE
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