Chief : [noticing Abdul is depressed] Abdul? I don't want to intrude, but you seem a little down.
Abdul : Well, Chief, it's about my job.
Chief : Ah.
[sits down with Abdul]
Ab : I'm having doubts about being in the Taliban. You know, it's not like how it is on the Internet. All I do all day is fill out forms and paperwork. I mean, this is what I do.
Chief : [contemplates] It's a point well taken, Abdul. But you must understand, although it's not exciting, it's a very important part of our work.
AB : Yeah, but in all my times in the Taliban, I've never gotten to, like, chase a guy across a crowded city square. I've never... I've never hung on to that part of a helicopter. You know that part? Underneath the thing that it lands? Do you, do you know that part?
Chief : Yes, I know that part.
AB : I've never hung onto that. I've never even commandeered a vehicle.
Chief : Now *that* sounds like a lot of fun.
AB : And that's the other thing. You're too nice.
Chief : I'm too nice?
AB : Yeah, you're too nice. Why can't you be like Bin Laden on those recruitment videos? You know, when you come in, and you haul me into your office, and you bawl me out because you're sick and tired of defending my screwball antics to the Supreme Leader and threaten to behead me? Why cant you do that?
Chief : Well, the truth of the matter is, I don't report to a Supreme Leader. I report to a committee. Some of whom are appointed, some elected, and the rest co-opted on a bi-annual basis. It's a quorum, so to speak.
Abdul : A quorum?
Chief : Yeah.
AB : Chief, when I joined the Taliban, I thought I was going to be Bin Laden. But instead, I'm like... Samir from Initech.
Chief : Hey. Somebody needs a hug!