"The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder. We will meet that threat now, with our Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and Marines, so that we do not have to meet it later with armies of fire fighters and police and doctors on the streets of our cities."
"The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder. We will meet that threat now, with our Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and Marines, so that we do not have to meet it later with armies of fire fighters and police and doctors on the streets of our cities."
--President Bush, addressing the nation soon after the bombing of Baghdad had begun on March 19
This view emphasizes the "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) mentality that Keohane, the United Nations, and the United States advocate. However, Keohane calls the Iraq War an unnecessary intervention.
Michael Doyle found that the failures within Iraq were the results of the United States trying to impose democracy rather than promoting it. He established three common traps with the democratic peace theory, which countries often fall into:
1. The newly designated forces of freedom find that they cannot rule, and, as in Iraq, a civil war follows the liberating invasion.
2. The new freedom faction finds that it can stay in power only with ongoing foreign support. So, rather than a free nation, it has become a cog in an imperial machine.
3. The freedom faction learns that to stay in power it must govern as the previous dictators did, by force. The liberating invaders are thus responsible not only for the costs in lives and money of the invasion but for an invasion that has literally done no good, produced a civil war, a colony, or one more tyranny with a new ideological label attached.
Ideally, the U.S. should have promoted free press and tried to assist Iraq indirectly through incentives like trade and investments. Any humanitarian aid supplied to Iraq was offset by military aggression. According to Michael Doyle, the U.S. needed to be more patient in Iraq and utilize organizations such as the UN Democracy Fund.
"The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder. We will meet that threat now, with our Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and Marines, so that we do not have to meet it later with armies of fire fighters and police and doctors on the streets of our cities."
--President Bush, addressing the nation soon after the bombing of Baghdad had begun on March 19
This view emphasizes the "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) mentality that Keohane, the United Nations, and the United States advocate. However, Keohane calls the Iraq War an unnecessary intervention.
Michael Doyle found that the failures within Iraq were the results of the United States trying to impose democracy rather than promoting it. He established three common traps with the democratic peace theory, which countries often fall into:
1. The newly designated forces of freedom find that they cannot rule, and, as in Iraq, a civil war follows the liberating invasion.
2. The new freedom faction finds that it can stay in power only with ongoing foreign support. So, rather than a free nation, it has become a cog in an imperial machine.
3. The freedom faction learns that to stay in power it must govern as the previous dictators did, by force. The liberating invaders are thus responsible not only for the costs in lives and money of the invasion but for an invasion that has literally done no good, produced a civil war, a colony, or one more tyranny with a new ideological label attached.
Ideally, the U.S. should have promoted free press and tried to assist Iraq indirectly through incentives like trade and investments. Any humanitarian aid supplied to Iraq was offset by military aggression. According to Michael Doyle, the U.S. needed to be more patient in Iraq and utilize organizations such as the UN Democracy Fund.