I'm disappointed because a reaching the rank of Brigadier is no small feat, and I expected to learn something from him, a way of thinking, a insight into a way of thinking I had not considered, a way of evaluating, or exercising critical faculties I had not know before, instead
there is a term in farsi it is called "tuf e sar bala" -- "tuf" means spit, sar is of course sar or head , and bala is up - it refers to spitting while tilting your head back -- you can imagine where the spit will fall --- it is like a curse amongst us -- each time the pot is calling the kettle black, the spit falls on our own foreheads -- we are both strangers and old acquiantances, there is little negative about the other that wil escape us and yet does not expect of Brigadiers to not engage in that , to not go there, so to speak - well I did, each time items of immense interest and importance that ought to be discussed is presented and I wait. I do wait for something that wil move me, something I had not thught of, something I had not considerd, a point o view I was not familiar with, I wait to learn something - and Salim has not failed to fail me.
Ok we are adversary, but careful if you want emnity, adversary is bad enough and it's not as if even if one disagrees that one has to go below the belt -- it's like "tuf e sar bala" is the only recourse and well, I am disappointed by that --- it's not that we can't all play at that, just not what I expected.