8am and Iraq
So I’m in my Arabic class this morning, and there happens to be a guy in there whose family came from Iraq to the States in ‘95. Many of the other students have some kind of grandiose plan to work in “security” or “foreign service” - so they ask all kinds of irritating questions about if the Iraqi dialect is similar to MSA. Before class this morning, one of these security geeks asked the Iraqi, “So, what do you think about what Bush has done in Iraq so far?” The poor man was a little stunned, but managed to get something out along the lines of “Um, that’s a huge topic - but my family left Iraq because of Saddam, so obviously we were happy when he was removed from power” or something like that. The security dumbass said “Oh, well, I like to ask people about it. Get different opinions.”
Look, idiot. It is EIGHT IN THE MORNING. Stop pretending like you want to have some kind of open dialogue and shut the fuck up.
