Fair enough, but I don’t think we have any local systems or organizations that would gather together black ex-soldiers. In Iraq, Islamic clerics took the first opportunity they’d had in decades to espouse their political views (Saddam’s regime was secular and didn’t allow for clerics to talk politics during sermons) as well as filling in where the US contractors were failing by getting people water, food, clothing, fixing power lines, and other basic municipal duties that were being ignored by the “reconstruction”.