Where are my bootstraps?

Nothing is more odious than hearing Americans blame the Iraqi for the civil war and suffering in that country. Every politician, Democrats (“it is time for them to fight and die for their country) and Republicans (“the Iraqi government must start to take over the security duties) alike, are singing a duet of blame the Iraqi bums who just take and take from us. This is blame shifting in the lowest order. Just because the U.S. military destroyed all the material and political infrastructures, put all existing political leaders in jail, disrupted all civil orders, disbanded the military, the police and the courts, played favours along religious and ethnic lines, taken over the control of Iraq’s one great resource, and not to mention the hundreds of thousands of people they kill, it is their fault that they found themselves in such a horrible mess. Some even start calling Iraqis ungrateful. Ungrateful for what? All the death and destruction? All the poverty and sufferings? The bloody civil war? Or, the non-functioning government? Even if I agreed with the saying “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” and overlooked its obvious physical impossibility, the person would be able to do nothing if someone had burnt the bootstraps. It is bad enough to go into someone’s house, beat up everyone and trash the place, but then to turn around and blame them for the bloody mess? That is revolting.