) I think you are another of these desert-loving English...No Arab loves the desert.We love water and green trees, there is nothing in the desert.No man needs nothing.Or is it that you think we are something you can play with because we are a little people? A silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel? What do you know, Lieutenant.He stops Nat from wiping away the enclosing rings - a symbol of the depth of his drunkenness:Don""t wipe it away, Nat.The highly self-confident and tough-talking Edmund mentioned how he would kill anyone who might be having an adulterous affair with his hot wife: "If I thought she was seeing another guy.Maybe it was the way the wind blew through her hair.After being served in food lines, some of the workers find shade under umbrellas planted around.One of the loutish workers impertinently asks Bill: "Your sister keeps you warm at night, does she?" Angered, Bill throws two plates of stew and mashed potatoes onto the man.Sensational publicity copy is dictated to the press:"Thus begins this remarkable expedition into the valley of the shadow of adversity.