Yeah guys a former Marine according to his own words. So that means that man is a walking threat, idk what's with vets but the VA does a terrible job and now we have men who go either far left or far right.
Most vets are relatively normal. There are so few of us in relation to the general population that the weirdos and failures are the ones that get attention. Those of us that just recognize their military time for what it was (a short term job), don't get noticed by society.
It doesn't help that Hollywood and TV either makes us out as retards, heroes, and/or insane savages.
For all the bitching that Vets like to do about the VA, it's far better than any private healthcare system.
The last time I had to go to the emergency room, it cost me like $12 or something.
I think the fact that Islamic terrorism is the biggest amount of terror attacks by a country mile might darken people's perception of Arabs. It doesn't help that Arab countries have active contempt for human rights and have forms of wage and debt slavery in the 21st century.
It always doesn't help we tend to view everyone from the Middle East as Arab and united. They hate each other as much as they hate us.
Generally speaking, in the Middle East, it goes by family name, clan, ethnicity, specific form of Islam, and as a very distant concern, nationality. It's the whole reason why the Taliban controls pretty much the same territories in Afghanistan as the US did. Just the major cities.
The whole concept of nation states and national pride is a relatively new thing for the region.
Also, despite Disney giving Aladin an Arabic name, the actual folk tale it's based on is Persian in origin.
And dear God to Persians and Arabs fucking hate each other. Lol.