Black and white in a grey land

"I am often amazed at how we like to see the world in black and white here in the United States. There is good and evil, sweet and sour, right and wrong. We tend to too easily categorize people and we do it in short sighted ways. You see much of the world is grey and Iraq is a place of many shades of grey. Often the bad guys are really bad and the good guys aren’t perfectly good. We have to figure out those distinctions to do business the right way there but often those distinctions are much blurrier than our American minds can see.

I started seeing this difference early in my first tour. After 35 years or so of various forms of dictatorial rule Iraq has become a place where simple answers don’t exist."
Armed and Curious