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In my view, we have no business in regime change of any country unless we are attacked by a country. What we have been doing in the ME is trying to spread our form of democracy, and in my estimation, it will only have a semblance of success while we are still there. Culturally, many people in that region of the world probably aren't capable of managing it without our presence.
That being said, I have no problem with special ops and intelligence being used to take out legitimate terrorist targets, but I object to nation-building and trying to spread our idea of what government should be. I don't think anyone who isn't capable and willing to fight for their own democracy is ready for it.
I disagree with a few of your points.
First, it is our business to do regime change. Not everywhere. Not all at once. In my view, it is justified when a government subjugates its people. We should only do it when it is in our interests.
Second, I don't think we are spreading our form of democracy. We are spreading democracy and they are determining what that looks like. The Iraqi form of democracy looks nothing like ours.
Third, we should only do regime change when the people have the cultural capacity for it.
Fourth, democracy is universal and with enough literacy, anyone can have a democracy.
Finally, they do fight for a democracy, once we have gone in and removed the boot of the dictatorship that was subjugating them. It is not easy what they are building in Iraq.