They probably will, but I suspect that they will mainly retreat into racism: "Iraqis were incapable of -- or were not ready for -- democracy." And that racism will probably be shared by a sizable number of Americans beyond the hard Right. They won't admit that if America were a democracy, it would never have invaded Iraq, nor would they concede that what Washington wanted to export to Iraq was not democracy (which it doesn't practice at home either) but American-style capitalism and a pro-Washington and pro-Tel Aviv government.
-- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>