Why Dick Cheney will not let the US leave Iraq

"Nothing we know about Dick Cheney suggests that he wanted to "redeeem" Iraq or make it into a model society of any kind. If Cheney followed any example in his dim plans for post-invasion Iraq...it was Ariel Sharon's. No one would suggest that Sharon aimed to "redeem" the Palestinians or create a model market society in the West Bank and Gaza. What he aimed, and achieved, was managed anarchy: a weak, internally divided and festering society unable to project power outwards, but susceptible to periodic violent intrusions. -Stephen Holmes, reviewing Naomi Klein's "The Shocking Doctrine", London Review of Books, 8 May 2008.