A friend passed on to me a link to this pamphlet produced by the US War and Navy Departments during World War II. It's somewhat entertaining and occasionally bigoted in its views/lessons on life.
I couldn't help but hear a voice like Sam Elliot, John Wayne, or George C. Scott when I was reading it. The Arabic in the back is accurate as far as I can tell. As the pamphlet says, it's an Iraqi dialect so I don't know some of it as I was exposed to an (urban) Egyptian dialect.
Some of the foregin policy/cultural interaction guidelines would be helpful to our troops in the Middle East even today.
"What is this Iraq?" That's hilarious. I love stuff like this. Maybe I'm going to have to do some searching of the internet to find cool things like this to share on my blog.
ReplyDeleteI could see what you mean about hearing one of those old "war voices" as I read through the guide. Great stuff, man.