Thursday, June 12, 2008
"... what was it he said? Something about how Iraqis don't use toilet paper and were fond of just dropping a deuce in any abandoned building regardless of American troops sleeping there - not as an affront, you understand, but because they didn't really see anything wrong with it. Jesus fuck the christ. If they were bad shots they would say that's God's will and not bother practicing. He said when he walked patrols with a geeky looking fellow officer the Iraqis would never listen to the geek because he didn't look threatening enough, even if he was just trying to be helpful: you wanted them to stop shittin' in your billet you had to get mean. They were like children, children you didn't want to share a space with, and that lead to a lot of bad policy at first, a lot of needless violence and half-assed efforts. Obviously he wasn't particularly optimistic about the situation but agreed with McCain: with grunts finally figuring out the culture of these people it'd be idiotic to leave now, cause without a strong hand to guide them they could go wrong in a very ugly way..."
