Iraq is damaged goods... It's just too late for the US to "Do it right" the next time...
The best way to handle the current mess is simply let nature take it's course... Whatever the Iraqis "do" is what they will have to live with...
A better course would have been to "impose" a government on a western model by force with a large army of occupation...and with the help of at least some groups in Iraq... Sort of like the British did during their Empire Building phase...
You simply must have allies to impose a successful occupation... The reason Afhganistan is "going better," relatively speaking, is that the US had the help of the old anti-Soviet "Northern Alliance"...these are alas, a group of Drug Lords! But any port in a storm...!
EMPIRE BUILDING IS A RISKY BUSINESS...EVEN UNDER IDEAL CIRCUMSTANCES...AND WHAT IS HAPPENING IN IRAQ NOW...IS FAR FROM IDEAL.
FROM NOW ON BUSH & CO ARE GOING TO BE POUNDING SQUARE PEGS INTO ROUND HOLES IN IRAQ...
SIMPLY EXITING ASAP...IS LIKELY TO BE THE ONLY REAL OPTION NOW...
SINCE THE "MILLION MAN ARMY" IS PROBABLY A PENTAGON PIPE DREAM...
OR DO WE START UP A DRAFT AS SOME DEMOCRATIC "HUMORISTS" HAVE SUGGESTED...?
