The US is trying to establish a democracy in Iraq, in fact successfully, but very slow progress. This is because of two differing beliefs (sunni and shiite) vying for power to control Iraq, the coalition ends up in the middle of it and have no choice but to put down insurgents involved in no good. I agree about the fact we kicked Hussein's regime's ass out of power, but I disagree about sticking around to babysit these idiots. Iraq ought to be paying us back in oil to finance their protection. Matter of fact, Iran has their eye on taking over and establishing a cleric/mullah type of government not only in Iraq, but the rest of the mideast. The once troublesome gulf states sees Iran as a threat and now see a reason for the US to stick around. Iran may be developing nukes, and if they use them, can very well start WWIII. Now not only do we have Iraq to babysit, Iran is gonna need a spanking too for their stupid nuke ambitions. Either way, whether we are in the mideast or not, someone will want to disturb the peace and we end up going back to whup some sense into them. At least the US and most of the western hemisphere cares about world stability, what doesn't make sense is that Russia and China are only interested in selling arms to rogue nations or indirectly to insurgents while giving no hoot about stability there.