"In Iraq this year I asked an Iraqi military officer doing joint training at an American base what was the big thing he'd come to believe about Americans in the years they'd been there. He thought.
"You are a better people than your movies say."
He had judged us by our exports. He had seen the low slag heap of our culture and assumed it was a true expression of who we are. And so he'd assumed we were disgusting."
I'd like to think we are better than our movies. Certainly the men and women who served our country so well in Iraq are first class. Thank you - a lot - for your service. You acquitted yourselves well and history will judge you charitably, in the finest tradition of the American soldier.
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