So your argument is that since Iraq has no real experience with democracy (like Imperial Japan or Fascist Germany)we would be better off walking away from the project altogether?
I find this reasoning this hard to understand..
What I can't understand is how you can take Iraq, a nation of about 4 or 5 ethnic groups and 3 religions groups and compared it to Germany and Japan-both nations with a homogeneous ethnicity, history of democracy, a history of industrialization, a highly educated population and a sizable middle class.
I would also add we had millions of troops deployed in Europe and Asia to keep order.
So when you try to compare Iraq to Germany/Japan you are being just as disingenuous as those that compare Iraq to Vietnam.