Our Enemy practices discouragement and deceit. To those who say the US is terrible at nation-building, that we cannot found a democracy in Iraq and influence an entire region of the world, let us remember Germany and Italy after the close of WWII. If they say, "Yes, but those were Western nations, and Iraq is very different culturally," then remind them of Japan and South Korea and the Philippines. If they respond, "But that was many years ago," remind them of Poland and Russia and Romania. We must have steel and remain in Iraq.