Is the Iraqi I live and fight with not allowed to enter any American facility?
If you are a military adviser or training to be an adviser, look around where you eat:
Are the Americans on one side of the room and the Iraqis on the other?
Do you even eat with Iraqis?
Do you go out of your way to avoid eye contact and thus not greet the Iraqis you walk by?
Do you try to learn their language or follow their customs?
Do you habitually expect Iraqis to share intelligence and then not respond in kind?
Do you distrust them?
We have this same problem in our own military, blacks sitting with just black, white sitting with just white, etc... Usually it has to do with what or who you are most comfortable around. As a rule I usually make my soldiers eat as a team!! Just a thought!!
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