Herr Gerecht the geneticist:

"That's one of the reasons [Iranians] want to have nuclear weaponry anyway: it's because they have terrorism in their DNA"

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/showdown/themes/irannext.html#gerecht

How could you forget CLEANLINESS, which is next to you know what.
I mean, how often does your average Iranian brush his or her teeth? I bet they could use some of those whitening toothpastes we got. Oh, the white teeths' burden!

look this guy basically argued that for a middle east because the women are too attractive to be kept in veils. that tells me at least everything i need to know.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/08/21/3896/

GERECHT: In 1900, women did not have the right to vote. If Iraqis could develop a democracy that resembled America in the 1900s, I think we'd all be thrilled. I mean, women's social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy. We hope they're there. I think they will be there. But I think we need to put this into perspective.

To play Devil's Advocate, it depends on WHICH part of the West he is talking about...800 million people on three continents is a very wide net, you know...Finland qualifies as much as the USA, don't it?

"Corporate honesty"?

Wow. This Gerecht's views on the character of Arabs is amazingly similar to the stereotype Muslims in the Middle East have of "al-Ameriki." Growing up the phrases I heard used to describe Americans were "spoiled and decadent, with no self-discipline," and "always lying to themselves and to us," and, by the way, given one of the comments above, and since Muslims are required to bathe at least once a day and wash the head, lower arms and feet before praying (five times a day), and also required to wash the lower parts after relieving ourselves, ethe long-held stereotype of Westerners always has been how dirty and bad smelling they are.
Irony rules the world.

Wow. This Gerecht's views on the character of Arabs is amazingly similar to the stereotype Muslims in the Middle East have of "al-Ameriki." Growing up the phrases I heard used to describe Americans were "spoiled and decadent, with no self-discipline," and "always lying to themselves and to us," and, by the way, given one of the comments above, and since Muslims are required to bathe at least once a day and wash the head, lower arms and feet before praying (five times a day), and also required to wash the lower parts after relieving ourselves, the long-held stereotype of Westerners always has been how dirty and bad smelling they are.
Irony rules the world.

Wow. This Gerecht's views on the character of Arabs is amazingly similar to the stereotype Muslims in the Middle East have of "al-Ameriki." Growing up the phrases I heard used to describe Americans were "spoiled and decadent, with no self-discipline," and "always lying to themselves and to us," and, by the way, given one of the comments above, and since Muslims are required to bathe at least once a day and wash the head, lower arms and feet before praying (five times a day), and also required to wash the lower parts after relieving ourselves, the long-held stereotype of Westerners always has been how dirty and bad smelling they are.
Irony rules the world.

Wasn't there some "dictatorial strength" over there before?

Jon S.,
please tell me that Gerecht is made-up so that you can score easy rhetorical points about how deluded the ruling class is.

jonathan versen: Listen to Rush, this guy IS mainstream.

Jibril: I hear you. I KNOW I'm decadent and spoiled, I do like to believe I have SOME self discipline,(but you may well be right on that one too--gambling) I worked many years in Carnivals so I've lied to myself too.(and it may be spring before the creek thaws out???)

I first became aware of Gerecht when he was playing apologist for the Pentagon's propaganda efforts in Iraqi newspapers. I've since seen that was the tip of the iceber - err, mountain of crap.