Please, no more made-in-the-USA monsters! One of America's most decorated soldiers (according to the blurb at the bottom of the article), Col. David Hackworth, recounts how the US helped Saddam Hussein rise to power between 1959 and 1990, supposedly to counter Soviet and Iranian threats, and then spent the next thirteen years getting rid of him. Hackworth concludes:

Now billions and perhaps trillions of our dollars and our best and brightest will be rebuilding Iraq to create a stable government – a beacon of democratic light in a dismally troubled region. But that's only if we don't empower yet another world-class serial killer, and then in a decade or two have to spend still more precious American lives making another regime change in a country that's already paid too hard a price.