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Now, someone please tell me why we are supposed to care. I mean really, is it down to this<\/a>?\u00a0 Apparently, the US Navy uses the term \u201cArabian Gulf\u201d, rather than the \u201cPersian Gulf\u201d.<\/em>\u00a0 Why? I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 But this has, according to The Lookout<\/em>, caused a certain level of anger in some Iranian circles.\u00a0 What I find amusing in the story is how it recounts other times the Arab world has snapped and we\u2019ve blinked.\u00a0 The Arab world.\u00a0 We\u2019re not talking about Muslim Americans.\u00a0 We\u2019re talking about the Arab world.\u00a0 Where religious minorities are still persecuted, where Christians are still being executed, murdered, imprisoned, and given death sentences.\u00a0 Where Westerners still travel in fear of their safety. Were tens of millions of Muslims support terrorism and the unchecked slaughter of Western Infidels.\u00a0 Where thousands of hotheads from across the spectrum are emerging who seek to kill as many Americans as possible.\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah, that Arab world.\u00a0 And it snaps its fingers, and we jump.\u00a0 Anyone out there still thinking the West isn\u2019t plummeting like an anvil in a Road Runner cartoon?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"