It's the neocon's nightmare scenario. You invade a country, institute "regime change," and declare it a free and sovereign nation -- then it starts actually believing it's a free and sovereign nation. Next thing you know, they start thinking they can tell you what to do and make you obey their laws. Give them an inch and they'll take a mile; tell them they're a free and sovereign nation and they'll start thinking they really are.
Of course, they're as free as they're allowed to be. But it puts you in kind of a tight spot. Do you play along and wind up doing something you'd rather not do or do you drop the pretense and expose the lie for all the world to see?
I've said before that neocons want world domination. That's probably not exactly true -- at least, it's an oversimplification. What neocons believe is that we already have world domination, but that we can't let anyone know that. After the fall of the Soviet Union, they figure the last superpower standing won -- not just the cold war, but everything. World dom isn't our goal, but our right. And we get to march around the globe exercising that right.
But the rest of the world isn't really on the same page. Neocons like former Ambassador to the UN John Bolton literally believed that it was the place of the United Nations to do what the US told them to. Donald Rumsfeld dismissed "old Europe" after those countries didn't back the invasion of Iraq. The new Europe -- the former Soviet states -- understood the new world order. Everything was changed after the USSR fell, it became an American world, but not enough people accepted that truth. In the neocon mind, the United States has the right to do anything -- naysayers are merely deluded, hanging on to the old international system in the same way that Dickens' Miss Haversham wore her wedding dress every day. They were all living in the past...
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