"In a [August 2009] Facebook exchange with a childhood friend, Steven Berling,
Sergeant Bales called the deployment “boring” and “pretty dumb,” then lamented
the lack of fighting. “Giving money to Hagji instead of bullets just
don’t seem right,” he wrote, apparently misspelling Hajji, a term used by
soldiers, often pejoratively, in referring to Arab people."" (thanks Ray)