others don't see it through their prejudice. They simply don't see what the rest of the world sees in a video llike this.

Since the only stories they've heard are about car bombs and suicide bombers, they'll conclude that the destruction is something the Iraqis did to themselves. And when they hear about them going to market and sitting in cafes, they'll conclude that the Iraqis are too lazy to clean up the mess. And the walls? Well what can you do when people are killing each other but segregate them into "gated communities?" Besides, anyone who's been in the military is going to think that fences and gates are good.

I don't know how you overcome a prejudice once it's in place. We still haven't come to grips with the fact that our inner cities were turned into slums by people fleeing into the suburbs and taking away their taxes and services. Even in New York it was possible to blame the difference between Fith Avenue in mid-Manhattan and the part in Spanish Harlem on the behavior of the residents, rather than the people who did and didn't maintain the buildings and the grounds.

Anyway, five years on, predators and reapers are killing the good people of Iraq--all those the U.S. has failed to corrupt. How such assassinations aren't war crimes, I don't know.