I guess if we’re going to declare, I’m with Andy. I’m a bit more waffly about it in principle, but in practice that’s where I’ve got to end up. We’re already in the nation-building business, we already smashed up the place, we already decided to leave a large cultural footprint. We might as well stick to our guns and get the best one possible for us and for them. Indeed, where the idealistic and realistic strands meet is in the need to turn Iraq into a stable nation en route to democratic bourgeosification. The education and liberation of women is essential to that process. Personally, I’m not 100% convinced that the process must be codified in the Constitution to be successful. But I think that’s the way to bet and that’s where our principles lie. For the US to countenance something else would be a breach of faith with enormous political consequences as well.