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Originally Posted by Mazer
Sounds like they just want the Big Bad Americans leave; we'll humor them. Of course a crowd of locals caught up in a short moment of mob madness is not an accurate statistical sampling of the whole nation, so I wouldn't go crying 'Anarchy! Anarchy!' just yet.
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i concur, Mr. Mazer...i doubt this is representative of the Iraqi people as a whole.
but i try to imagine myself in their position...i've been living under a brutally repressive regime for as long as i can remember....and now, my country is on the threshold of self-determination. it would be monumental in the course of life as i know it and i should be completely stoked, no? or is the daily grind such a struggle that i simply can't relate to the future and the promise it holds?
i have to wonder if some of the Iraqi people are not unlike those who have spent much of their life in prison...who have been so institutionalized that they are afraid of an unregimented life, and prefer the order and structure of repression.