<p>GMT, that is fine, but we (the US) need people who can blend in with the locals. And you cannot do that if you are extralinguistically dumb.</p>
<p>So I guess our best and brightest are in CIA SAD, Delta, DEVGRU, etc… able to speak with the locals where they are operating.</p>
<p>If that is the case, fick, I need to join the diplomatic corps. If you are right and our top folks overseas cannot converse colloquially, that is f’ing sad. Guess I need to join CIA…</p>