Mercurial

Sherif Ali urged his people to cooperate with American forces "to allow them to help the Iraqis to help themselves. We should not fight with each other, or with them," he said. But he also said it was "quite surprising" that the Americans were unprepared to deal with postwar Iraq, noting that "the problem is that America is not an imperial power, and is not capable of being an imperial power."
That is what happens when you make a Coalition of the Willing based on the last acknowledged empires on Earth, Britain and Spain: the country you liberate wants a monarchy.