It is harder to remember what it was like when you did not see it. It is easy to forget the past when your TV captivates you with arousing immediacy.

When your TV shows you what you should have and could be doing in the morrows, your language is tends to be future tense. When the communication you receive is oral and from defenders of tradition and preservation of history, your language tends to be past tense and your memory dwells on the past.

The fact of having different native languages is only a minor factor in the great divide between our and their cultures.

The US media does not show what Middle Eastern countries were like, the changes wrought for ten, twenty, forty, one-hundred years ago, before the British and the US began dividing Middle Eastern land into nations and then began meddling in their governments and siphoning off their oil. What a difference it would make if the American populace and US officials could be placed inside the minds and memories of Middle Eastern citizens. Residing in there for a while would be a true shock and awe for the American mind.

This fundamental difference between the US and Middle Easterners means that the US is mystified by the Middle Easterners profound resentment toward the US.