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This is a timely question. In the long-run, it wont matter much, unless they can't keep the freedom.
The party that is getting the most votes in Iraq is aligned with Iran.
An alliance with Iran is the last thing that Iraq and the mid-east needs.
The US may have opened the doors for a different, more difficult, kind of nightmare.

This is an historically ignorant post. Without General LaFayette and other ground troops, and without the French fleet off Yorktowne, we would be singing "God Save the Queen" before the Superbowl.

It is hard to imagine any effort of national freedom that does not have a strong, sometimes critical, self-interested assistance by some existing nations. Get a grip on history.\

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I have pondered over similar thoughts and Star Trek always comes to mind. The mindset that advanced civilizations were not to interfere with developing planets. Something about having to develop warp speed on their own and the Prime Directive. I know kind of cheesy. I am not a Treky or anything but as I was writing this I thought I would look up exactly what the Prime Directive was. I copied it below

As the right of each sentient species to live in accordance with its normal cultural evolution is considered sacred, no Star Fleet personnel may interfere with the healthy development of alien life and culture. Such interference includes the introduction of superior knowledge, strength, or technology to a world whose society is incapable of handling such advantages wisely. Star Fleet personnel may not violate this Prime Directive, even to save their lives and/or their ship unless they are acting to right an earlier violation or an accidental contamination of said culture. This directive takes precedence over any and all other considerations, and carries with it the highest moral
obligation.