Children are the future

The opening of school in Baghdad has a hopeful ring:

"With the bombing and missiles, we were afraid because it was so loud and so dark." The dark and the loud noises are over, she told him softly but firmly. "And no country will be better than Iraq."

Somehow, we need to instill in these people the belief that they have fundamental rights that no one, not even an Ayatollah can take away.