It looks obvious

So when neoconservatives talk about spreading Freedom and Democracy this is what they have in mind:

We should tell Maliki, loudly and in public, that he owes his job to us, and that further prosecution of our military operations in his country will be conducted with regard only to U.S. interests, as determined in consensus by our established domestic political processes. And if he doesn’t like that, he can go to hell.

I probably got confused a little bit since this is sound very much like colonialism. But I guess this what it was all along….

Lets assume for argument sake that the reason we invaded Iraq was to spread democracy. We will have the leap of fate that the administration’s doctrine was that the tyranny and lack of hope in the Middle-East are one of the major reason for the radical islamic terrorism and the best strategy to address it is by changing the conditions in the Middle-East. This is by the way isn’t cynical approach rather than a well argued and very influential concept advocated by scholars, such as Fouad Ajami.

We should expect that the American policies would aimed at increasing freedom, and ensuring that the horrifying methods used by Sadam Hussein - such as his secret police and their interrogations methods. Doing the opposite is a sign that either we never really intended to change the Middle East, or that their is no real connection between our strategic goals and the tactic we are using to achieve them: 

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s government has been quietly bringing back into service Saddam-era intelligence agents who have experience spying on Iranians.

The effort is aimed at improving Iraq’s ability to gather intelligence about Iranian-supported networks operating in Iraq, said Dan Maguire, the top U.S. adviser on intelligence.

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U.S. officials have approved of the practice of bringing back some former agents. Maguire said the hiring of former agents had "a lot of logic to it." He said he did not know how many agents would be affected by the ban on Baath Party members nor how many Saddam-era agents have been brought back.

Iraq’s Interior Ministry intelligence department has been seeking "former regime intelligence officers, primarily ones that worked against the Iranian target," Maguire said.

Bringing agents back to work is fraught with risk, said Wayne White, a former deputy director of the State Department’s Middle East intelligence office.

Because their "business was human rights violations," White said, those "who functioned in that environment must be to some degree morally warped."

One the other hand, with the assaults on Human Rights back at home one might argue that we are spreading the American democracy….