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"the most important reason for the Iraq war: to try to collaborate with Iraqis to build progressive politics and rule of law in the heart of the Arab-Muslim world,"
This the fundamental problem of Iraq war hawks like that is this. As laudable a goal of spreading democracy is, why was it necessary to wage war to do it? Saddam was 65 years old and not in the best of health. We dealt with him before. Why couldn't we have simply negotiated a Saddam exit strategy? Why didn't Bush or Friedman consider this a doable alternative?
