re: It's not particularly surprising . . .
Iraq is a nasty place to be today. Did you think it was a volleyball tournement?
As a future reference to reality, my own moral is generally pretty good when I'm relaxing on a beach, with not a care in the world other than the possibility of spilling my burbon-n-DP, but it starts to fall when people who hate me just because I'm in the area and being me start shooting real bullets at me and my buddies.
Cheers,
Dan