[yooper]

"One kind, Arab fighters from the new generation of the jihad diaspora, were teachers, workers and students from across the Arab world feeling oppressed and alienated by the west; they came to Iraq with dreams of martyrdom."

I hope that all of their dreams come true.

"The amir told me: "All we want is the Americans to leave, and then everything will be fine, the Kurds will stop talking about seceding from Iraq, the Shias will stop talking about settling scores with Sunnis and each province will elect a council and these councils will elect a president."

And he also has a bridge and some low lying real estate to sell.

[Siamese Princess]

"The amir told me: "All we want is the Americans to leave, and then everything will be fine, the Kurds will stop talking about seceding from Iraq, the Shias will stop talking about settling scores with Sunnis and each province will elect a council and these councils will elect a president."

The thought occurred to me that with the worst case scenarios -- the fundies take over the Iraq or the country is rent by civil war, or both, this guy might seek to skeddadle to the US (or other Western country) as a "refugee." So would many of the "Allah Akbar"-spouting, infidel hating, psychotics he is serving with. Veterans of the north Vietnamese forces in the Vietnam War are living in the US as "refugees."

Excellent article -- very enlightening.