What good do you see in it all?

Your analogy just won't fly, SM. A closer one to the current Iraqui reality would be more as follows: Bush becomes dictator and the scenario you describe unfolds itself, but instead of the Brits coming to our rescue, its the Chinese. Now we are not only reeling from the horrors of the recent Bush dictatorship, we are trying to deal with the invasion of a people who do not speak our language, are ethnically different than most of us, and who want to impose a system of government that we have no experience with and find threatening at best. On top of that, none of these Chinese are Christian. They seem to be some strange blend of atheist communists crossed with a wierd oriental belief in Confuscianism which most of us know nothing about. There is a more true parallel of what's going on in the Mid-East today.