Young Mr. Matthews would no doubt find the current goings-on in Iraq rather inconvenient for his worldview. As usual, he could either act as if the Iraqis were real, flesh-and-blood people who he could actually ask about this sort of thing or he could opine based on the categorical knowledge a 20-year-old has about the world without taking the trouble to actually learn facts. Option B works better for a busy college student with a deadline.
There is an abundance of 20-year-olds who actually have been to Iraq, involved in civic works programs as well as the fighting, who know perfectly well that Matthews is talking through his oversized hat. He should speak to a few of them some time if it is too inconvenient to interview their "victims."