One of the fundamental flaws of our foreign policy has been that we assume every country and every society can handle democracy, and we force it upon them, when often democracy in these uncivilized places amounts to no more than "mob rule".
An evil dictator is sometimes better than the alternative and is often the glue that holds a country together. Besides Iraq, Yugoslavia is an excellent example. Nothing but war and genocide after Tito. Qaddafi and Libya were actually helping us until Madam Benghazi decided it might be a feather in her cap for her ascendancy to the presidency to be "The Liberator of Libya". What we got is a failed nation-state with multiple groups that hate us and breeding ground for al queda and mozlem extremists.
We should be promoting our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Democracy without that as the base leads to the ‘Arab Spring’.
Yugoslavia was a different matter, much more complicated. Today they live in peace without dictator. This is not the case with Muslim countries, this is backward civilization.