You knew this was coming: how Iraqis loved a US occupation soldier

"In his new book "A Soldier's Dream" William Doyle dubs Captain Patriquin the "TE Lawrence of Iraq". He describes how the Iraqis loved the US soldier who wore a thick moustache and could speak Arabic street slang."  Aside from the obvious joke, I bet you that Captain Patriquin probably spoke three words of Arabic, or four.  I offer to test his command.  If you are reading this, call me.  As for the analogy with Lawrence, is that a reference to political insignificance highly distorted by a movie?