If I get another opportunity, I will.
Yes, please do. Though, I don't agree with everything he says, I do appreciate that he does recognize certain dynamics that exists between the occupying nation and occupied that can't be avoided. And if Americans are to stand on the right side of history as the occupier, I believe we also need to carry through the full task of spreading democracy by building up, encouraging, the occupied country's economy. So, that spreading democracy doesn't just become a cost of fighting and military engagement against the bad guys. But also the cost to the civilian economy of the occupier in helping the occupied country gain a foot hold in the US and global economy.
I do have my doubts that Americans would be willing to help Iraq in the post war years the way we did for Germany and Europe after WWII. Integrating Iraq the way we integrated Europe into the American economy until she becomes fully self sufficient and industrialize. But then again, I have been ocasionally pleasantly surprised, in the past.
Iraq is the first country since WWII in which the US fully defeated the nation, occupied it, set up the government and slowly hand the nation back to the local people. And since a precedence was set with Europe, we need to keep that same precedence, that is, to follow up with economic help similar to the Marshall Plan in Europe and McCarthy's plan in Japan.