I dunno - but if I someone were to start dictating how I live my life, enforcing it with brute strength - I very much doubt I'd be too happy about it, and I'd probably give someone a good ol' thump.

Example - I drink, sometimes too much - and I know that. But if someone were to come along and slap me every time I touched alcohol, I'd get really rather annoyed, and still not stop. It's something that I'll have to cut down on myself, and I will, in time. Changing people is not something that can be done from outside - it has to come from within.

Now, expand that to America telling people that democracy is the best form of government. I'm sure it is, but nothing changes overnight, and there could have been so many better ways to effect a change of government - not through war, not through funding terrorist rebel groups. Ideas, suggest the right ideas to people, and they'll change themselves, without feeling resentful.