As you know too well democracy and building of civil society cannot be achieved by means of missiles and aircraft, or by backing armed member of AlQuaeda in Benghazi.

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.

Iraq simply cannot be governed by a military effort, no matter how technically advanced, well-trained, and well-funded, that thinks of itself as a combination of a SWAT team and the Salvation Army.

Democracy brought to others through the barrel of a gun is not democracy; to impose it by force is to undermine it.