http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3911613
While direct connections to Iraq may or may not be entirely applicable, the references to the Phillipines, Spain, and Mexico are definitely worth thinking about.
Sept. 10, 2004 -- When U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, some American policymakers were unprepared for the intensity of the resistance that ensued. John Judis' latest book, The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, finds the postwar developments in Iraq entirely unsurprising.
While direct connections to Iraq may or may not be entirely applicable, the references to the Phillipines, Spain, and Mexico are definitely worth thinking about.