Despite the overwhelming opposition on the left to the war in Iraq,
many prominent liberals supported the war on humanitarian grounds.
They argued that the war would rid the world of a brutal dictator
and liberate the Iraqi people from totalitarian oppression, paving
the way for a democratic transformation of the country.
In A Pact with the Devil Tony Smith deftly traces this
undeniable drift in mainstream liberal thinking toward a more
militant posture in world affairs with respect to human rights and
democracy promotion. Beginning with the Wilsonian quest to ???make
the world safe for democracy??? right up to the present day liberal
support for regime change, Smith isolates leading strands of
liberal internationalist thinking in order to see how the
???liberal hawks??? constructed them into a case for American and
liberal imperialism in the Middle East. The result is a reflection
on an important aspect of the intellectual history of American
foreign policy; establishing howa sophisticated group of thinkers
came to fashion their recommendations to Washington and working to
see what role liberalism may still play in deliberations in the
country on its role in world events now that the failure of these
ambitions in Iraq seems clear.
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