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Human beings are shockingly adaptable.
Some live in the Arctic, in the searing
heat of the deserts, while other live in
the suffocating humidity of the rainforest.
Still others live in urban jungles or on the
mountaintops, as well as in the temperate
zones. Some wear no clothes at all, while
others are covered from head to toe in

burqas.

Yet all of us live with different degrees of
violence and with different styles of
government control and oppression.

Against the backdrop of a country flattened
by the US War Machine (for no good reason,
at all), leaving the country in tatters and
subject to the depredations of the US-armed
and -trained ISIS, we see this heartening
glimpse of how life somehow manages goes
on in the ancient city of Baghdad.

Families still take their children to carnivals
and to eat ice cream, young boys dive into
irrigation canals to beat the 120ºF heat, while
teenagers jump out of their cars, in traffic
jams, to dance in the streets, with the sheer
exuberance of youth.

The locals don't worry about the bombs. They
don't have that luxury. They say, "We don't
worry about the bombs. They're just a fact of
life. You're only hope is to be far enough away
[to avoid injury] - or close enough, that you're
gone quickly."

Most videos from Iraq don't make you smile.
This one will, in a rare, surprising, humanizing
look at the everyday lives of young Iraqis.

Video: (4 mins)

Life in Baghdad: Joy Amid the Chaos of War

http://fktv.is/life-in-baghdad-joy-amid-the-chaos-of-war-27545

- Alexandra

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