Come on Hawk, cheer up. In the absence of the UN in a sensible form, the USA and Cow is the next best thing and 57% of Iraqis want the USA to stay, at least for now. I suspect if push came to shove and especially if the USA put Saddam back in a palace along with a security force to help him re-establish control, then pulled out, complete with their cash flow, the vote would show that in fact 70% of Iraqis would find it better to have the USA remain in place.
As with the British in Northern Ireland, trying to keep order, it doesn't take a heck of a lot of destructive people to create misery for a lot of people. Look at Carl's horrid "Sniper" poem and look at the results of the two guys sniper murdering people around Washington area. It doesn't take much to make a lot of news, fear and pandemonium.
You are feeling the pressure of Noblesse Oblige but with an element of hubris. A more modest USA wouldn't have presumed that being the world's only superpower was sufficient qualification to rule the world and get stuck into Iraq without full-on support from the UN.
A more sensible USA would have been more thoughtful, concentrated on Osama's likely hideouts and where known nukes such as Pakistan's were going, while getting the NUN organized into a sensible form.
That would have meant giving up power and one thing megalomaniacs have trouble doing is giving up power. 4% of the world can't run the world, even with a very horrific approach to subhuman UnAmerican types, which the USA doesn't like to take though limited human rights are offered to alleged terrorists cooped up in concentration camps without habeas corpus and all that legalistic jazz.
Ease the burden Hawk. A problem shared is a problem halved, but in this case it would be a problem much less than halved. Give the UN a big push along. Sign up to the International Criminal Court. Spread human rights beyond the borders of the USA. The Supreme Court is thinking of including Guantanamo Bay and maybe they'll go further than that.
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