A Snapshot Of The Iraq We've Left Behind

In Imagining Islam, Andrew McCarthy, begins with a thought experiment, detailing what it would look like to have

a dominant, pro-American, echt moderate Islam, an ideology so dedicated to human rights, so sternly set against savagery, that acts of terrorism were, by definition, “un-Islamic activity.”

McCarthy comes to the conclusion that such an Islam does not presently exist--yet American foreign and domestic policy is pursued as if it did.


One consequence of this policy is that

In Iraq, where half the public still sees attacks on U.S. troops as legitimate, democratic elections are now contests in which candidates vie to show who is most anti-American. To the new Iraq, Iran is the most important ally. Indeed, if war broke out with Iran tomorrow, American forces in Iraq would be barred from launching attacks against Tehran. We’ve pledged not to use our costly military presence in Iraq against any other country — the only country for which the Shiite government would waive that prohibition is Israel.

This is hardly the kind of Iraq that Obama claims the US has left behind as the result of his allegedly fulfilling his campaign promise.

And yet, there it is.

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