Simon's

"But now that we’re in, we can’t leave without something more tangible to show for our efforts than a “safe and secure environment,” or even a zero American body count. The best goals are still the original ones: to remove the current de facto government; to dismantle the repressive police and military apparatus that served it; and to construct a new, democratic constabulary force under the leadership of elected civilian authority. This doesn’t have to be a never-ending task of “nation-building,” as our military fears. It is basically what we did in Panama and Grenada after taking out their dictators. The work didn’t last forever, and though not exactly a moral revolution for those countries, the missions weren’t failures, either."