Continue the Dialogue: Iraq Uncensored
Two years ago, ASP began asking prominent Americans one question:
What is the single most important lesson we should draw from America’s experience in Iraq?
Our intent was to begin a national dialogue about the Iraq war in order to gain wisdom from the experience. Iraq Uncensored, recently published by Fulcrum Publishing, is the result.
This posting is open to continue the dialogue online. We want to hear your answers to the question we put to more than two dozen experts, religious leaders, political leaders, and others.
What should America learn from the Iraq War?
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Don’t elect ideologues.
Thanks for the first comment, Sven. But I’m afraid that’s too easy. There are too many institutions in America that are failing. Just think for a minute about the collapse of Enron–the energy trading behemoth that collapsed due to bogus accounting practices not long before the Iraq intelligence process was so flawed. I don’t think we can really divorce the two as powerful and troubling indicators of the same sickness affecting public integrity.
The path to the war had many components, but some were critical. You don’t need to remove all for the desired outcome.
The reason for the war as ideology, not national security or error. No ideologues in power would have meant no stupid war in Iraq.
The question was focused, and I answered it by pointing at a critical component.
Other answers would be possible, of course.
Can all U.S. households receive BBC World News, for example? It could break the U.S. media group-think.