Fashioning a Free People
Document Type
Article
Abstract
What makes you think that Iraq can create a democracy?" Three years after the 2003 U.S. invasion, as the Iraqi insurgency was killing civilians at random and a full civil war seemed inevitable, this questioner at a University of Minnesota forum wanted answers. The official from the Bush administration replied that it was our government's position that all people deserve to live under a democracy. Muslims could learn pluralism, added the speaker from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, from the various schools of Islamic jurisprudence. My conclusion: We have no idea how to fashion a free people.
Department(s)
English and Journalism
Publication Title
National Affairs
Volume
No. 34
First Page
161
Last Page
176
Publication Date
Winter 2018
Recommended Citation
Ritchie, D. (2018). Fashioning a Free People. National Affairs, No. 34 (Winter), 161–176.