[Southack]

"Only in Afghanistan and Iraq have we used force to dethrone authoritarians and birth constitutional government." Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson knows not of what he speaks.

The U.S. under President Bush used force to dethrone the Taliban from Afghanistan, Hussein from Iraq, and Charles Taylor from Liberia's Presidential Palace.

This use of force gave so much credibility to American foreign policy that Syria surrendered without a shot being fired; withdrawing its military from its illegal occupation of Lebanon.

Likewise, this use of force compelled Libya's Khadafy to surrender his extensive WMD program.

Haiti just underwent a "revolution" as well, though in no official part due to the U.S.

[humint]

Rarely do we hear that most postbellum efforts are long, messy, and necessary, much less that the essence of war is lapse and tragedy, with victory going only to those who in the end err the least and endure.