hello
hello
hi um this is Betty and i'm in Richardson Texas
i'm Nola and i'm in Plano
oh okay well here we go
i guess we're going to have a lot of parades this weekend in honor of these guys that are that did some stuff over in the Gulf um
yeah no did you push one oh okay okay well then i think it i just started doing this so i don't know too much about it
yeah uh no i haven't pushed one yet i just
oh okay we're just sort of getting acquainted here
oh okay
um you know i i just wanted to see if you know you had an opinion about this or you know
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um so if that's okay with you then i'll just press one okay
that'll be fine
well hi good morning
hi
i think i mean if if i start this i just wanted to say that um
one of the things that i don't think we really understood about the the middle eastern situation is that they're a totally different type of people than we are and i mean they think differently
and their idea of what is justice is totally different from ours and and right now i i think that that's been proven in the fact that um they have just
well anyway i just think that you know the United States policy over there i think we should just leave them alone i really do in in a major way because they just um
that whole region over there i think needs to settle it's own differences within itself
yeah
and that's the way the course that they should go i mean you know we can maybe help them a little bit prompt them but i don't think this intervention at such high levels
should be going on the the thing with Israel and Palestine i believe that should be settled between them and also um you know
the other thing is their idea or our idea idea of democracy has nothing to do with them
i mean that i mean i'm talking about the whole middle eastern and and maybe this is too general but i just believe that um they do not look at democracy the same way we do they don't understand it as we don't understand the way they live
yeah
and so you know trying to put like a square peg in a round hole is just you know it i don't think that that's the way to go in this and um you know it it
oh well that's that's a couple thoughts on it i i guess you know i'd like you to maybe express something here
yeah
well i i i think overall that's right i think it's kind of sad though that for generations they've been taught to hate each other
yeah
and that's if you know if somewhere in there someone's going to have to learn a different way
that's yeah
you know and an i i think that um
true we do have completely different ways of looking at things at a lot of things
but uh at the same time i think there are a lot of there is a lot of good that the United States and other countries can do as far as example and and um
i think some different things could come from what's happened than what we expect
well yeah well yeah um i i guess we could be a catalyst for their change i um the war has certainly sort of set things on end over there and i don't think we'd be talking about this
you know the Israeli situation Palestinian situation um sort of came to a head um unless there had been a war i mean that was
yeah
one thing that came out of it good or bad i i don't judge any war as good or bad it's just a war and i don't see any winners or losers i just see dead bodies i'm sorry you know but um
yeah
i i i just think you know you're right and i think maybe it's at a whole different level of them trying to cooperate and get along
it's not going to be that we're going to uh you know sort of tell them to go to their room and that's going to solve the whole problem it's going to be them
yeah but that's the type of thing they understand they don't understand any other way and so at that at that you have to work at their level to an extent too
yeah
and you know
it's
yeah that that's true too i um
uh they wouldn't have understood anything else than what we did in the war there was nothing else yeah
oh well yeah they they understand violence they love violent leaders to you know i mean look at you know the leader they had they they just adored him because he was so strict and cruel and you know for a while there he had them
yeah
i can't figure out why they adored him
well it has a lot to do with their religion i got to say that over there um and i know this
yes yeah
only because from personal experience that i'm speaking of this because i've i've you know traveled around town with different cab drivers in a situation where i've done that and one one of the kindest people i've ever met in my whole life
um is from that area of the country and i mean he is just
overly he he is abounding in kindness let's say and his life is so Godly i mean every thought they have a totally different life than we have
yeah
hum
you know and when you add the um commercialization of the western world it sort of screws everything up for them and they have very basic life um
yeah
well it's just a very basic life and they just really believe in Allah or God or whatever and it's you know everything is to the glory of Allah and and you know and it it's almost like
um-hum
what's sad is that the leaders that have control
yeah well that's see
are in
that using that yeah
power
yes and they abuse that
and it's always been military and it's always been and that's that's always been the way of the world don't you think
which i think that that's not the the way the majority of the people over there really are
yeah so it's really hard when you see the leaders compared to the people
but i think in a in a way the war uh i think in a way all uh the involvement over there too though has shown a lot of people that there are a lot of people that don't
follow what those few are doing and there are a lot of people who are good people
yeah yeah
you know there's and i i think we may not have ever have seen that without some of these uh newspeople being in there in the broadcasts and the the uh soldiers leaving
um you know surrendering and trying to get out of that situation and and the um uh you know
right and surrendering that was yeah
it just really comes down to people are people you know you have to have some compassion some humanness doesn't matter where the boundaries are
that's right
um you know there are political boundaries and those are man made boundaries but you know for heaven sakes that's something that's been going on for ages and
and i i think so much of it is what you're taught
yeah that's true
you know they teach their children
uh in such a way that
