giants and hard boiled eggs

I just got back from breakfast.  Its was okay.  I had a hard boiled egg which I dip in hot sauce, bacon, kiwi, and watermelon.  Standard fare for my Baghdad mornings but usually back home I just have a bowl of cereal and maybe a piece of fruit.  I eat cereal here on occasion but KBR isn’t big on refrigeration and warm milk just makes me gag enen though its UHT.  I usually have warm orange juice and grape juice to go with it.
I brought my Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings to look at while I eat.  I usually bring magazines but have run out but Thoruea is really good.  I usually find a thought worth remembering on every page.  This morning:
THE UNIVERSE IS WIDER THAN OUR VIEWS OF IT.
This becomes readily apparent in Iraq.  As I read two men walked by holding hands.  Standing in line for breakfast I saw two men walk up to each other and kiss on the mouth.  I often see them walking arm and arm.  I sat thru a briefing once and the briefer said if an Iraqi doesn’t touch you he either doesn’t like you or knows that touching makes Americans uncomfortable.
Oddly enough Iraqi men don’t touch the women this way.  And I’ve never seen women walk up to each other and kiss or hold hands.  A quick hand shake is about as far as a standard greeting goes with Iraqi women.  This is unfortunate that these traditional greetings don’t extend to Arabic women.  They really are beautiful.  In fact, local myth has it that a race of giants started the human race here, set it in motion then took off back to their own star.  A few were left behind to help build stuff, like the pyramids and some other middle eastern temples like that big fort on the hill (Mt Sainii?).
But the giants that were left behind found the human women so beautiful and attractive that they began to have affairs and eventually children with them.  So the other giants came back and took their wayward brethren with them.  These giants are an integral part in the story of David and Goliath.
I can understand why the giants liked the girls: middle eastern women are really pretty, especially their eyes.  If we could only get them to kiss and hold hands upon greeting.