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Exporting Democracy: What Have We Learned from Iraq?
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 54, Number 2, Spring 2007 (whole No. 227)
- pp. 57-58
- 10.1353/dss.2007.0040
- Article
- Additional Information
The American project to spread democracy in the Middle East in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, and the Iraq War was doomed from the outset. That's not because the Middle East is not compatible with democracy, but because the project was based on contradictions and erroneous assumptions.