"ON THEIR OWN TERMS"

I think that is the crucial part of this speech Fredo gave at the World Economic Forum in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt on May 18, 2008:

America is a much younger nation, but we've made our mark by advancing ideals as old as the pyramids. Those ideals of liberty and justice have sparked a revolution across much of the world. This hopeful movement made its way to places where dictators once reigned and peaceful democracies seemed unimaginable: places like Chile and Indonesia and Poland and the Philippines and South Korea. These nations have different histories and different traditions. Yet each made the same democratic transition, and they did it on their own terms.

The Iraqis also need to transition "on their own terms" but they won't be able to as long as we have 130,000 troops in Iraq, plus the mercenaries.