[ichabod1]

I think it may come to that horror of total war against these countries and the annihilation of the infrastructure, regardless of impact on civilians to finally cow the arab population enough to allow representative governments to take root.

Which is really another way of saying that the governments ARE representative.

[Hawk1976]

We had to destroy the Nazi regime and later radically reorganize the Japanese system.

The governments of Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and even Egypt and Jordan are something less than represntative. Whatever they are they certainly aren't systems of government based upon individual freedom.