Other Interesting George Will Point

In talking about nation-building. He says (paraphrase) "look, every 4 years the media, political pundits and candidates plunge into New Hampshire to figure out how the state will vote in the primary season. This is a small state with simple demographics, generally heterogeneous, we dump all of our "expertise" and predictive powers into figuring out the outcome and every 4 years we're surprised by the voters."

He argues, if we can't "understand" New Hampshire, how do we expect to understand Iraq?

He's right. The world and people are just too damn complicated. And yet, when I continue to think about it, simply because we don't fully understand Iraq, doesn't mean we can't affect positive change for both them and us.