In the ten years since the Iraq war, the Arab spring has shown that regime change need not be synonymous with western military intervention.It was the belief of those leaders who participated in the Iraq war that the intervention would serve as a model of noble and far-sighted foreign policy. The establishment of a “free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East”, George W Bush predicted in 2003, would be “a watershed event in the global democratic revolution”. A decade later, Iraq has become a model but one of failure. The state that the Bush administration promised would ... Read More