Thatlongodysseyis notso in theworldof bin Laden or anIranian theocrat — or the ignorantwho stream out of the madrassasandFridayfundamentalist harangues along the Afghan-Pakistaniborder.
Forcing a regime change in Iraq allows the US to pressure the remaining fragile, dictatorial Arab governments to install more democratic institutions, without fear of losing the control of the world's oil supply to fundamentalist, anti-western movements.