re:Other countries
It's a matter of understanding what happened in other countries.
Like Lebanon: there's even a word: Lebanization.
Algeria in the 90's , but it's improving.
Iran.
Fighting against a small group of terrorists, located in unspecified places, with unspecified arms and determined to kill at an unspecified time is not done by sending highly visible troops in a country who's leader did not organize the attacks against the west.
All the terrorism in Iraq started after Iraq was invaded by the US and Bush says the world is safer without Saddam?
Facts prove otherwise.
I could go on but I've got to eat.
Raoul