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...couldn’t understand why there was so much passivity,” he said about the atmosphere at Harvard when the war in Iraq began five years ago. “Nobody wanted to listen. Nobody did what should have been done...
Instead, he challenged Americans to learn something about their country, to seek to understand those whose emotions seem threatening, wrong-headed, even un-American. He asked whites to understand that the anger behind Rev. Wright's comments, while paralyzing, was also valid, the result of decades and centuries of real discrimination and oppression suffered by African Americans. And he asked blacks to understand that whites who resent affirmative action and whose fears of crime lead them to stereotype blacks should not be dismissed as racists, because their concerns and fears are real and valid...
...looting and fires In the immediate aftermath of the fall, some people expressed themselves by going and looting every government building that they could find. There was a lot of outrage and horror at this internationally, but I could understand where these people were coming from. I think they felt that this was their opportunity to take from the government. Yes, there was some basic criminal urge with some people, but for a lot of people it was a sense of vengeance. They couldn't get their hands on Saddam Hussein. They couldn't get their hands on the Baath...
...coping with the danger My main experiences walking around here is you act like you're in an episode of The Sopranos, that's sometimes how the rules are here. And if you imagine yourself in that [scenario], it becomes a lot easier to understand how things work here ... You know it's dangerous here, but you kind of take a dark sense of humor toward it, and just try to laugh off some things...
...witnessing death in combat People really don't understand the sacrifices that are made here by the soldiers. Things are getting better, but the rate of violence that the Iraqi people undergo is also very difficult and it's hard for Americans to understand. It comes off as statistics, but those are real people - Iraqis and Americans...