Cultural Invasion Quotes
The great physicist was asked if he believed in extra-terrestrials. Fermi was the scientist who organized and planned the first controlled nuclear chain reaction
That is exactly what happened to the nations of Eastern Europe.
The American to whom he referred was a member of one of the many Think Tanks. This illustrates his naïve and ignorant view of American politics as he perceives such people in America are powerful and important. Another creative think tank analysis wanted to airdrop pornographic pictures throughout Iran, claiming that this would cause more dislocation and crisis for the Iranian Theocracy than anything short of a full scale invasion. He was joking, but when one examines the quotations of Khomeini and other Iranian leaders, it might well be a very successful tactic.
Al-Omar is one of Saudi’s leading clerics and the Saudi Arabian government—supposedly is a major ally of the United States—not only tolerates this type of inflammatory rhetoric but it makes no effort to repudiate this and other radical Islamic statements. There is no freedom of Speech in Saudi Arabia, and people are arrested all the time for saying things that are displeasing to the Royal Family. But no attempt to suppress this kind of virulent anti-American attack.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. This viewpoint of Twain’s was just too jarring for an English newspaper to publish as England had been the leading Christian missionary nation in the 19th century. In the 20th century United States parents had a taste of Twain’s description with the Krishna’s, Scientologists, and other religions or cults doing what Christian missionaries had done elsewhere.