I hung around with an Iraqi librarian from the University of Mosul while I attended Denver University back in 1983-1984. He was a great guy except for I could not meet his wife and she had to stay in another room while I visited his apartment, he kept making asinine Kurd jokes, and he hated a great deal of little aspects of US pop culture.

We talked a lot about the Iran-Iraq War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War which was raging at that time and he kind of sounding like if he were not studying librarianship at DU for his MA in Librarianship he would be fighting the Iranians in the marshes along with his countrymen.

I just do not know if any easy solution or even difficult one will work with Iraq. It is just so hard for so many Americans to comprehend just how many Iraqis think.

My friend from Mosul hung around with a small group of other Muslims who attended DU. These men and women were from different Middle Eastern countries and their attitudes and opinions differed quite a lot from my friend's on the war in Iraq in 1983-1984, women, and US culture.