Let the politicians alone.

Meet real folk and talk with them.

Tell them the truth; for they don't know it! Talk with the men and women who haven't got political jobs to lose--with the fellows who did the fighting--with the men and women who have votes.
They'll believe you.

They've given up believing politicians, and they're learning how to twist the politicians' tails.

You'll find yourself in Baghdad within a year or two, with all Mesopotamia to make a garden of and none but Arabs to deal with.