Where does UAE stand? from Angie

["BE" <betndez@budget.net>]

> One 
>     of my most vivid impressions of the WEC in the UAE was going into the 
>     stadium guarded by armed guards--there to prevent 
>     terrorism.
>
> Heidi
>     Yes, mine too, and 
>     thanks for pointing this out.  That is an experience that probably most 
>     in the U.S. have not had. . . attending concerts, ball games, any large 
>     public gathering, and being surrounded by men with weapons.  During my 
>     years of traveling in developing countries, several in Africa as well as 
>     Southeast Asia, it was first scary and shocking to walk along streets or 
>     enter buildings being faced with men holding big guns at the ready (I don't 
>     know what kind but some looked like machine guns and others looked like 
>     elephant rifles) pointed at my chest.  Amazingly, after awhile I got 
>     used to it and hardly gave them a glance.
> In time people, like horses, become inured to almost 
>     anything.
> Is there a message here for us?
> Betty Edgar