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I had some work done on my truck yesterday. Local boy does it, doesn't charge too much, nice guy.
I picked up the truck in the afternoon. Daryl got the U-joints changed earlier and he was about done for the day. A couple of other local guys had stopped by, we, the four of us, were shooting the shit. The state of the nation was the topic.
A young guy was there trying to get a cheap car he bought inspectable. I'd guess the guy was in his mid to late 20's, he's got a job somewhere I suppose. Here is what he related to me:
The shia and the Sunni somehow got Israel to go to war with that other country (he wasn't entirely sure which one) where innocents were being slaughtered, and that Iran was behind it all. The reason for all of this was oil of course and the terrorists were trying to get it for themselves.
My jaw just dropped.
So I explained it in as simple a terms as I could muster up. The other two guys caught on pretty quickly. I actually went all the way back to 1947, up through the 1967 6-day war, and on to today. The young guy had never heard about a single bit of it. He thought Israel, as a nation, had existed since biblical times, he was unable to name a single country that bordered the country.
Dear god, how can you win?
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