Where are the Schools and Hospitals?

A big defense of the American mission in Iraq as it was going sour was that our soldiers were helping open schools and hospitals for the Iraqis. The American right wing propaganda machine would get newspapers and programs to show heartwarming photographs of American soldiers helping young Iraqi schoolchildren.

Well, it just struck me that I haven't seen any of that lately. I guess the propaganda tack now is that they have had 'free elections.' Of course that too is going the way of the school rebuilding as this new government seems as it might end up being a government in name only. As long as people are unable to go to work without the fear of being killed in a civil war that is only being exacerbated by the fact of our troops on the ground, government credibility will dwindle to zero, as will their ability to govern. Already I hear that cities outside of Baghdad are refusing to coordinate their policing with Baghdad.

In the end we'll have to go slithering out (remember Peace with Honor) as we discover that the world will not always tolerate our interference in the domestic affairs of other countries. This system of sovereignty was created in 1648 and unless the world all becomes one country - colonial affairs will be eventually doomed to failure, and the result will be failed states which will need caring and love rather than guns and war from the world community.