re: Developing the capacity for observation
I'll bet a large number of muslims would prefer their life as before the American invasion. At least their country, schools, marketplaces and lives were in one piece. Now they fear for their lives, from BOTH sides.
You do make it hard to be patient sometimes.
For the love of Pete, go back and do a little research on how Muslims, particularly Shiites and Kurds, a majority of the population, were treated under Saddam.
The irony is that people like Sistani and Sadr would, if Saddam were in power, be in exile, under arrest, or dead.