I certainly don't have the market cornered, but when I smell a rat, I smell a rat. Don't worry, were easy to identify.
The irony of your OP is that you whine about someone talking trash to you about your field of work when they clearly are ignorant on the subject, yet you did the exact same thing with me only a couple of days ago.
It's funny that you actually think that my Middle East experience is only military related. That's cute.