Reply #4: They will think we are planning to take over their country [View All]

[stray cat]

and we are simply smart enough to make sure some of us know the language so we can communicate.

I agree fluency in languages other than english should be part of education and the more Americans who know Arabic the better.

However, once again Bush appears to be thinking rather too simplistically. Kind of like when he said we would be greeted as liberators and Iraq could pay for its own reconstruction and it would remake the mid east into an oasis of happy democratic countries who would no longer want to hurt anyone.