That is our problem. After "completing" the military phase we went light speed to give them a chance for "democratic" election. It is like asking a toddler participate in elections. Not every society can make that switch that fast. Great multitude of political processes inside the coutry(without foreign influence) has to take place over many, many, many years and quite possibly generations for it to have an open mind towards democracy, monarchy, dictatorship.

Victors are not judged. But there is no imaginable way of US and its allies coming out of that country as Victorious as we were led to believe.

As far as their"impotent" government is concerned, thay are not very far from ours. When the greatest minds have no clue of what to to in Iraq, what can you expect of the government that is in the state of infacy with its people cutting each others throats by hundreds week in and week out.

History proved that for a foreing power to be succesful in a given country thay have to take everything from its people(land, rights, life). You have to have stomach strong enough for genocide or something close to it. If you do not do that every gallon of gasoline from that region that we'll be putting into our nice vehicles is gonna be stained by blood of thousands of troops and husdreds of thousands of civilians.

I might be going on a limb here, but I believe this a prelude to a mass military conflict that will involve lots and lots of countries in the region and the world.