Exporting Democracy: What Have We Learned from Iraq?

Iraqis show ink-stained fingers after voting. Photo: Jim Goodwin (US Army)

Iraqis show ink-stained fingers after voting in the January 2005 elections. Photo: Jim Goodwin (US Army)

The editors of Dissent posed the following question to several respondents:
Iraq has provoked the bitterest debate about American foreign policy since Vietnam. One rationale for the war proposed by George W. Bush’s administration was that it would lead to democracy—first in Iraq and then elsewhere in the Middle East. Many people thought that t...

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] The Shaat al-Arab is a short waterway into the Persian Gulf on the Iran-Iraq border. Dispute over it was central to the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s.