re: If you'll take the time to notice, there may be a reason.
What you call a quagmire (Which is another word for predicament, but I guess quagmire sounds more interesting) in Iraq, I see as a liberation of Iraqis from a murderous regime.
I also understand President Bush’s vision of the region, which has two parts.
1. Create a successful democracy in the troubled Middle East, and others will follow.
2. Terrorists are created in lands where they have no hope of a future. Terrorists have nothing to loose, that is why so many will commit suicides. Give them something worth loosing- give them freedom. Create a society, based on freedom, and terrorist will no longer be created.