How on earth could you say it is painfully obvious the people who are dealing with them don't know who they are dealing with?
How else would they know the things that will highly offend them? Because the DO understand their way of life and what will get to them most! How else would they know unless they understood their way of life?
How else would they know dropping kicking the korass would be offensive, or calling a muslim's privates by girly names would humiliate them, or braiding their beards in cornrows with little beads would be a grave offense against their religion?
Because they DO know their enemy! They know them all too well! They just don't give a rats ass about respecting them, they don't respect us, why should we do them any favors?
Maybe you are right. That just makes them stupid. Strange way to 'win the hearts and minds of the Arab world.' It is also a strange way for liberators to act.
