In your time in iraq, is this just a fantasy of mine or actually plausible?
That is a really difficult question to answer.
In general I think that the people in the initial phase didn't want to fight because they hated their politicians enough that they were willing to try out any eventuality aside from the one they were living in.
By the time people realized that life under ISIS was the misery that we all know, it was too late to do anything. No 40 year old father will risk his life to fight against an armed enemy with no option for success. It would be better for them to survive.
In the camps from people who fled from Mosul you hear so many stories of people's interactions with ISIS. I remember one old man who told us that since he had a white mustache that ISIS knew he was smoking cigarettes, since it tinted his mustached yellow. He was fined and imprisoned. In the camp he was smoking as much as he wanted.
In another tent I remember talking to a family about fleeing from ISIS. The family will pack up their bags and put them into the car, but ISIS will stop everyone leaving from their area. So you have to lie to the guys at the checkpoints at the edge of the city and tell them that you are planning to go to your aunt's house instead of planning to flee from ISIS.
But ISIS knows that you are planning to leave so they start talking to the kids in the backseat of the car to interrogate them. They start with asking "Ayyouni, how are you? How is your health? Where are you going? Do you know where you are driving to?"
If the kid answers that he is going to the camps or to friends living in Erbil then his father will be arrested. The parents have to lie to the children in order to make their own way to safety.
I also remember a boy I met who is Yazidi and was bought back by his family from ISIS about a year ago. He was captured in August 2013 and lived with ISIS since. The girls get sent to live with families, but the boys go to the training camps.
He needs a lot of help, but he's getting it. I hesitate to think about the kids who were in his situation that never were brought back from ISIS areas.
There is evil in the world, but most people just want to help. The people in Mosul are no different.