
A people thrown into narrow confines is like a large ship made to sailing in a small river. It will certainly fail to sail, not because of an intrinsic reason, but because those in charge did not provide the suitable requirements for the ship to use its capacity in appropriate surroundings.
This was the case of the Iraqi people, almost since the decline of the prosperous Abbasid era. The people were always severely judged, not by the ruler, but by the outcome, when such outcome was put in the wrong historical perspective and the Iraqi people held responsible for the failure. The fact is that the Iraqi people, for almost a thousand years, were not responsible for any negative result in their life, or in their society as a whole.