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 how a
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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