Trent Telenko has what is, in my opinion, a must-read post about military transformation and rebuilding Iraq (and other places as well). He speaks truth to the amorphous power of tranzi mushheads.

Here are the nut grafs (the emphasis is his, but I certainly agree with it):

Let’s face facts – the US Army has a far better track record than NGO’s in reforming national cultures. American vital interests and the vital interests of the Wilsonian style multilateral non- government organizations, like the U.N., that make up much of the international system today are fundamentally at odds. One or the other will survive the War on Terrorism and America isn’t going anywhere.

These international NGO leaders are going to force their replacement with American military draftees in the nation- building role. America can build lots of military police, signals, medical, quartermaster, civil engineering and civil affairs battalions for occupation duties very quickly, given the political will.

America is in the chaos elimination business because tyranny anywhere is a threat to Americans everywhere, even at home. That is the searing lesson of 9/11. There is no such thing as defense in this war – only the complete elimination of our enemies. This means killing terrorists and reforming at gun point the societies that breed them. This is why Democrats are dead and damned on issues of national security – the kind of naked military and cultural imperialism necessary to win is against the party’s secular religious creed.

NGO’s, on the other hand, are parasites. They thrive on the open wounds of chaos and disorder in the international system.

But read the whole thing.