4. The mistake here is to think the goal was meaningful democracy in any way, as opposed to a pliant Iraq with trappings of electoral system
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@UncredibleHallq Perry Anderson's new book American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers discusses & cites sources.
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15. The huge gaping differences between post-war Axis powers & Iraq were obvious to experts (see great Japanese historian John Dower).
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16. When I saw that the critiques of scholars like Dower were ignored & glib analogies to WWII made, I knew "democracy promotion" was a sham
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