Alternately, you might take his familiarity with the language as a useful expertise that could have been used to avoid a dangerous or embarrassing situation.

Also, considering your concern for military issues, I’m a little surprised you haven’t addressed the issue of how unregulated use of military contractors is endangering American soldiers:

Suddenly, on that May day in 2005, the copter dropped CS gas, a riot-control substance the American military in Iraq can use only under the strictest conditions and with the approval of top military commanders. An armored vehicle on the ground also released the gas, temporarily blinding drivers, passers-by and at least 10 American soldiers operating the checkpoint.

“This was decidedly uncool and very, very dangerous,” Capt. Kincy Clark of the Army, the senior officer at the scene, wrote later that day. “It’s not a good thing to cause soldiers who are standing guard against car bombs, snipers and suicide bombers to cover their faces, choke, cough and otherwise degrade our awareness.”

Both the helicopter and the vehicle involved in the incident at the Assassins’ Gate checkpoint were not from the United States military, but were part of a convoy operated by Blackwater Worldwide…

Most don’t know how many operatives from the Mad Mullahs are in this country, and actively working on behalf of them.
The IRGC(Iranian Revolutinary Guard Corps), also known as the Pasdaran is operated by and for, and under no other authority than, the Mad Mullahs. President Ahmadamdingdong can’t say one word to them, other than hello, he is in the civilian government, the Pasdaran is not. They have one purpose, and that is to spread the Islamic Revolution of Iran outside it’s borders, and it is they who created Hezbollah in Lebanon, and it is their flag that the Hezbos have copied, along with their weapons and training, and the Pasdaran is in this country, and in South America.
This piece at the Huff-n-Puff is either by a supporter or member of the Pasdaran, or a useful idiot…my money is on the former.

What, no updates? From the Navy Times:

So with Navy officials unsure and the Iranians accusing the U.S. of fabrications, whose voice was it? In recent years, American ships operating in the Middle East have had to contend with a mysterious but profane voice known by the ethnically insulting handle of “Filipino Monkey,” likely more than one person, who listens in on ship-to-ship radio traffic and then jumps on the net shouting insults and jabbering vile epithets.

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“For 25 years there’s been this mythical guy out there who, hour after hour, shouts obscenities and threats,” he said. “He could be tied up pierside somewhere or he could be on the bridge of a merchant ship.”

So it’s well known to the Navy that there are rogue transmissions in the Persian Gulf yet the Pentagon starts an international incident over the matter? It looks like you might owe the Huffington Post writer an apology.