Retooling the Middle Eastern Freedom Agenda: Engaging Islam
Thomas Farr Friday, 1 September 2006
Post-mortems on the American democracy project in Iraq, and by extension the Bush administration's freedom agenda in the Middle East, are in full swing. Authors are rushing into print with explanations of what went wrong in Iraq, most of them emphasizing lapses in U.S. military planning and execution. Books such as Thomas Ricks' Fiasco typically argue that U.S. forces failed in their most fundamental mission—providing security for the new Iraqi democracy.
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