re: ". . . to create a secularized, liberated, cosmopolitan society in a core Arab nation."
"American genius manifests itself through innovation and experimentation. These are both head skills. Head skills are transmitted by teaching, not at gunpoint. These skills also don't respond well to orders, for the most part. The most American thing the Iraqis can do is to tell us to take a hike and mind our own business. How would we answer that?"
Iraqis can tell us to take hike, as soon as they have an elected government which says so.
Why on earth should listen to some of Saddam's henchmen or the twisted America/European Left?