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Reshaping the Middle East: Winning a Lasting Peace in Iraq Will Take More than Tanks

Opinion Piece/Newspaper Article

Author
Michael A. McFaul - Stanford University

Published by
San Francisco Chronicle, February 23, 2003


Protesters who marched around the world last week were wrong to assume that American inaction against Iraq will make their children safer or the Iraqi people better off. (Wouldn't it be nice if the Iraqi people could express their opinion about their country's future rather than having to listen to George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein or street protesters speak on their behalf?) The protesters were right, however, to question whether war against Iraq will produce more security at home and real freedom for the Iraqi people.

Topics: Iraq