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Bait and Switch

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NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Listen to the American hawks after a few glasses of wine, and you might be seduced into thinking that after overthrowing Saddam Hussein we’re going to turn Iraq into a flourishing democracy.

But I’m afraid it’s a pipe dream, a marketing ploy to sell a war.



We haven’t even been able to nurture full democracy in modern, bustling Kuwait, where women still cannot vote, or in Saudi Arabia, which is more egalitarian
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