MER - An advocate of Iraq regime change wonders what went wrong

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Makiya was awaiting the arrival for dinner of a former student of his at Brandeis University, where he is a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies....<br><br>The doorbell rang. Yoni Morse, Makiya's former student, had arrived, stomping through the snow with a bottle of wine from Israel....<br><br>Kanan Makiya's latest creative block seems as imposing as the concrete blast walls that have sprung up across Baghdad in four years of war.<br><br>He is having trouble putting words to paper, grappling with a new book that he says is likely to be his final political work on Iraq....<br><br> Yet, Makiya refers to Dec. 30, 2006, the day Saddam was hanged, as "one of the worst days of my life."<br><br>"It was a disaster, an unmitigated disaster," Makiya said, his voice rising. "I was just so upset, even on the verge of tears. It was the antithesis of everything I had been working for and hoping for."<b on></b> </body>