The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant… — Dexter Filkins Copy Share
The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas… — Dexter Filkins Copy Share
“I fared better than many of the people I wrote about in this book; yet even so, over the course of the events depicted… — Dexter Filkins Copy Share Image
