Mission Impossible: Democratization by Deceit
The Ends Based on the objectives, there can no longer be any doubt that the Coalition of the Willing has lost the war in Iraq. The only remaining question is which way the coalition should cut its losses; whether it should cut and run or slog it out in the hope that Iraq does not remain a failed state racked by civil strife and home to terrorist organizations with ill-intent towards the US and its allies. The invasion of Iraq has clearly failed in terms of the stated objectives. The coalition has failed in its objective to remove the weapons of mass destruction from the dangerous hands of the Iraqi regime because they were not in those hands. The other objective persistently underlined by the leading proponents of the war was to strike at the terrorist threat being offered by Islamic fundamentalists. However, by invading Iraq, a second front has been opened where it did not exist, and where once the US and its allies were on the front foot against al Qaeda, they are now simply holding ...