Nothing is preventing them from improving their options.Is anything really preventing a schizophrenic from improving their own options? Sometimes they do break out of their box, but sometimes, they are locked there for reasons nobody really understands.
I wonder if the boys in Lord of the Flies were muslim, would they have accomplished anything, or killed each other immediately?
[Is anything really preventing a schizophrenic from improving their own options? ]
Non-sequitur.
Define schizophrenia as it applies to the population in question.
These "Militias" are nothing but gang-bangers with better support.
You mentioned "Lord of the Flies" - Great illustration that Tribal Fascism is inherant in human nature.
Iraq needs law and order - with consequences.
That's why they've gone after the police. They don't want to live in a republic.
They want us all to live in a tribal fascist theocracy.