July 05, 2005

Walking the Line

Just a little vignette from a very good Iraq report series .


More than half of the patients in the hospital were Iraqis. Among the other half was a Romanian civilian who had been providing security until he got shot in the leg. Now, he was in healthy spirits, but in that Romanian way—looking askance with slightly raised brows as if to say, "I am skeptical, cynical, and clever . . . and I expect to suffer a thousand lies for every blade of truth, and I will drink you into submission and you will tell more than you intended you fool!" Actually, he seemed a pleasant fellow.

Oh, how true, how very, very true.

Posted by TMLutas at July 5, 2005 04:16 PM