Reforming Iraq's Security Sector: Our Exit Strategy from Iraq?

摘要

Tony Blair and George Bush have both declared that the war in Iraq pits democrats against murderous would-be dictators. Shorn of its evangelical rhetoric, this claim is true. The former Ba'athists, Islamist extremists and organized criminals orchestrating the violence in Iraq are fighting to prevent the emergence of a pluralist, democratic society governed according to the rule of law. The Shia clerics and assorted parties that make up the Interim Government are not liberals in the mould of John Stuart Mill or Thomas Jefferson but they are at least looking forward to a better future for most of their compatriots.