Name:   MrHodja - Subject:   It Has Always Been Date:   1/5/2020 5:43:13 PM

Spent two years in Turkey 1968-70 (thus the Nasreddin Hodja pseudonym).  Even as late as then in the villages women were going to the one available water source, filling their container and walking it back to their home with it on their head.  More than likely, that home had dirt floors.  At my previous employment we developed an electronic security system for Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti.  Abject poverty there is rampant, and what little money they can get they spend on khat, a hallucinogen that is chewed.  It is not unusual to see a naked man running through the streets, high on khat.  A current work colleague grew up in India, where his home village got electricity in 2012.  He put himself through college, studying as he sat under a tree tending the family flock.  

Hound I am sure you could tell many stories about what you observed in the Middle East.  And you are right, the guy was not a principled military man, he was a terrorist and termination was justified.