sure has touched a sensitive spot.
No one seems to care if he was right about the quality of the mission and if the US military was trampling on Afghan culture.
He seems to have had more the personality of an NGO worker. Interested in languages and people and cultures.
More interesting than your average soldier. Not someone you can easily yoke inside a stiff hierarchy of obedience and loyalty. The kind of guy that, if he was used right, might become a Lawrence of Arabia.
But if you want him to submit to normal models of loyalty, just won't bend.
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