Offensive Driving lessons

By way of Autoblog, here's a link to a brief look at the kind of new driving techniques you'd need to drive in Baghdad:

Are the anti-terrorist driving tactics employed after Baghdad fell one reason America is having a hard time winning the peace? Did we lose friends and make enemies with our driving? Still, the U.S. men and women over there were just trying to stay alive and protect those they were transporting. I would have done the same thing.

At an anti-terrorist driving school, I learned how to ram out of the way a vehicle being used as a roadblock. Clearing a blocking car isn't difficult (more later). Instead, the challenge is to distinguish between poor driving and a terrorist attack.

"Iraqis are terrible drivers," the instructor said (sensitivity was not his specialty). "It's extremely difficult to tell a bad driver from a terrorist." The instructor also said that after Baghdad fell, a lot of bad Iraqi drivers were wrecked. These were simple, innocent Iraqis — just bad drivers whose actions were misconstrued as threatening.

I'm now wondering if returning troops from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan have even more trouble adapting to normal life, even on the road. Has the need to drive hyper-defensively in Iraq translated to even more dangerous driving in the United States?