"We hope the Americans will stay in Iraq forever."

[xoxoxoBruce]

understanding the premise of 'the most people, win.'

That's not our system. To the contrary, Madaline Murry O'hare and many others have proved that.

Just because it's our way.. doesn't mean it's their way.

Precisely my point. When we tell them we want to bring them democracy, do they really know what in hell we're talking about.
If we tell a Figi islander, we'll bring him/her a tree, I would expect them to conjure up the image of a tree they're familiar with and not necessarily what we have in mind.
"What we have here is failure to communicate."