re: Humility is a might hard to come by . . .
. . . particularly when the media insists that the only news in Iraq is American casualties and a failed WMD search. Also hard to come by when you have bits of your own body scattered around a two-meter crater.
Experience says humility can wait. The hurt is already here, and we can handle it. A proven fact. Others, of course, will steer us away from success, but that won't change the facts, and we will, eventually, succeed -- regardless. Countering the “U.S.-led†progress will only slow us down, not stop us.
And if there's a real problem with creating a world in the image of the United States of America, that’s fine. Which other nation would you choose to be the template?
Dan