On the need to learn Arabic 27, May 2010
Posted by thegulfblog.com in American ME Relations.Tags: American is a donkey, American photo in Iraq, Arabic language, Arabic photo in Iraq
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“This American is a donkey who can’t read Arabic. Your brother, Abu Jihad.”
One of my (many millions of) eagle-eyed readers pointed out that the soldier should surely have some kind of insignia visible? No? Isn’t that more or less mandatory? Any thoughts? Special forces? Getting dressed?
A kindly hat-doff to said reader.
The Gulf blog 
that’s a photoshop.
Notice that the arabic “R” are identical.
🙂
I still got a good laugh though!
You might well be right…the calligraphy is really rather uniform…