I had a run-in with one of our Iraqi staff yesterday. He lied to me. It wasn't even a good lie, and when I called him on it, he made up another one on the spot. I was furious and chose to walk away, informing his supervisor along the way.I'm at the very end of my deployment and have no patience for this cultural tendency towards lying. I understand that the anger and rage that I felt was mine, and mine alone. I had to deal with it, accept it, chide my ego for entertaining it, and then just let it go. At times Iraq and the Arab culture can be a wonderful place for a Buddhist :)
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The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the blog post From the Front: 10/15/2008 News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.
Time for this one to come home!
Safe travels.
Cathy B
Pretty typical over there. Hey, I found a book the other day about reading body language, written by Joe Navarro(former FBI). Very cool book, and I wish I had read it before my last deployment.
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