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How the legitimacy of US goals has been undermined by its war on Iraq

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Washington had five claims for the war on Iraq: the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction; international terrorism; the need to establish a beachhead of democratic freedoms and the rule of law in the Middle East; the need to bring Saddam Hussein to justice; and the duty to be the international community’s enforcer. It is not clear that even now, the war protagonists appreciate how each goal has been badly undermined by the means chosen; nor the fact that their collective damage to the “Empire Lite” enterprise is greater than the sum of their separate parts.

Related Subject(s): Human Rights and Refugees
Sustainable Development Goals:
Countries: Iraq ; United States
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