"I really don't know how much (Bush) knows about the country," Rockefeller said. "I've read books on it and otherwise researched it. I think that's pretty much what you have to do to begin to understand a culture. It's not just a question of where your tanks go."
Rockefeller's read books, while the president hasn't bothered to educate himself one iota, in JDR's estimation. He's so condescending.
Are the Iraqis really nomadic these days, or is Rocky reading from his schoolboy books, when they still roamed the desert on camels? They seem pretty well established in urban areas, from what I've seen.
Nomadic societies rarely display cities with 5 1/2 million people in their midst.
I suspect the Senator's vaunted book-larnin' probably consists of repeated viewings of "Lawrence of Arabia"...