A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.
My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.
I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.