Liberal Internationalism

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  3/20/2023
  

  Iraq Discredited Liberal Interventionists. Why are they Still in Charge?

  by Daniel Bessner

  "War for oil" explains only part of the push to invade Iraq in 2003; the ideological belief that American militarism serves a noble and righteous cause appealed to many liberals. That general belief has been frustratingly immune to 20 years of exposure of facts about the falsehoods that sold the war.