The near-unanimous condemnation of the war in Iraq seems to have been
built up as a genuine consensus on both sides of the Atlantic. The bad
faith and hypocrisy of its detractors is breathtaking. It is as though
no one had ever supported the intervention in the first place, which
makes such intellectual (im)posturing all the more suspect. Although the
Americans are not exempt from criticism, they are nevertheless not
condemned to repeating the painful experience of Vietnam. Nothing is
less like Vietnam than the Iraq war, starting with the armed forces
operating there. Their power, versatility and flexibility are
unquestionably the keys to the possibly successful democratisation of
Iraq, no matter what the bellicose pacifists found among US Democrats
and Europeans think. Moreover, it is very unlikely that American
leadership will fade away between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
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