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March 25, 2005
What's The Arabic For "Keeping It Local"?
John Hindraker at Powerline reiterates an important point that still doesn't get enough airplay. In his post relating an anti-insurgency protest march by electrical workers in Baghdad, he writes:
I think it's interesting that the signs are all in Arabic. All around the world, antiwar and anti-American demonstrators brandish signs in English. Why? Because the intended audience isn't their countrymen, it's us. Here, the demonstrators wanted to get through to the terrorists and to their fellow Iraqis.
There have been a few sharp observers (and I can't recall who they are) that have made this point before--and once you're made aware of it, you can see it all the time. In the photo accompanying Hindrocket's post, the banners in English are conspicuous by their absence.
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