Money quote of the day from an O-5 (Lieutenant Colonel) who has been in country for 6 months:
"What's the Hajj?"
Arrrgh!
nice...
More effort than the commander of a military intelligence unit deep in the heart of nation composed of 96% Muslims could be bothered to put forth
Ashura will be saved for the graduate level commander's class I think. He was just confused from being forced to regard the world through colon colored walls.