Add to that my professor telling my social psychology class today that Iraqis don't want us there, don't need us, don't know what democracy is, and don't want democracy.
Ask him whether he would have argued in 1860 that black slaves don't want to be freed , don't need freedom, don't know what freedom is, and don't want it.
Tell him it's interesting how little the mainstream of Democratic Party thought has changed since then. Outside of the change of ethnic groups, your prof basically has the same viewpoint as Stephen Douglas did during the 1860 presidential debates.