Great, and uplifting, read. Thanks for the post.
Excellent article. I think we have spent a lot of time and effort trying to understand terrorists and not much on the Iraqis. There are probably many Americans who do not understand how debilitating living in a tyrannical police state is. Hence, "That's due to the fact that they've been beaten down for years. If anybody was seen as displaying initiative in the past, they were usually done away with."