No problem with being friends with the Iraqis, or helping them establish their democracy, at this point.
My problem is that we never seem to be able to pull our miltary out of a country, once we go in. We currently have active militaryy in something like 60 countries, (counting our territories), and we now have FOL's in four South American countries, including El Salvador and Caruba.
Can you name any countries we've removed our military from besides France and Vietnam? Oh... and Somalia, where the Klintonistas were playing Meals on Wheels, like we are in Indonesia now. But what are we still doing in Bosnia-Kosovo, and Macedonia? Japan and Germany?
John Quincy Adams said it best in his speech "Monsters To destroy":
Monsters to Destroy
John Quincy Adams 1821
http://www.thisnation.com/library/jqadams1821.html
"She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom."
This is my own argument with Germany. Why are we there except for fast dates with nice frauleins? There are nicer and prettier devotchkas in Poland that don't use bad words and behave like women should in nice company. And those people want us to move in among them. It must cost $10B USD to support Deutsche bases to toss into a money hole.