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Sunday, February 18, 2018
How democracy’s spread dashed dreams of liberalism
Over more than a quarter of a century, that view – triumphant as, in 1991, both Soviet communism and South African apartheid were swept away – has been knocked hard. Interventions in Iraq and Libya, undertaken in part on the liberal grounds of a “responsibility to protect” a population from its murderous leaders, are now viewed as having produced more chaos than liberation. The struggle to keep the Taliban at bay in Afghanistan is increasingly regarded through a similar prism; the
American journalist Steve Coll wrote last month
that U.S. war aims are “riddled with contradictions and illusions.”
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