Iraq (2004) | The United States Should Not Permit Iraqis to Elect an Islamic Regime

The bromide, often quoted today [in the aftermath of the 2003 war in Iraq], that we have won the war but now we have to “win the peace,” is meant to remind us that we have to turn from achieving our military goals to achieving our political goals in Iraq. But what if our political goals were such that accomplishing them would obliterate the meaning of our military victory? Such is the nature of the Bush administration’s stated goal of bringing “democracy” to Iraq.

What Iraq needs is not democracy, but liberty.

A Dangerous Term
“Democracy” is the...

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