Preeble: Exit 2005 Christopher Preble: Exiting Iraq: Why the U.S. Must End the Military Occupation and Renew the War Against Al-Qaeda
Paperback: 82 pages
Publisher: CATO Institute 2004
ISBN: 1-930865-64-3

Christopher Preble, the man behind the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy and the director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, gathered a special task force to argue against the occupation of Iraq. The result - Exiting Iraq - shows how the ambitious plan (read chimera) of democratizing the Middle East is harming the U.S. interests.

The costly nation-building project seems doomed, costs a lot, and most importantly for the free world is counterproductive in combating terrorism. Iraq is a new breeding ground for a future generation of terror grads

"The United States already spend more on its military than all of the leading developed nations of the world, combined. If current trends continue, the United States will spend more than all of the rest of the planet by 2007."

Military power, the most important thing in international relations is at its best when not used. The easiness of the military campaign does not translate into easiness of occupation. This can be witnessed in Iraq and Afghanistan. U.S. and global interests would be best served if the utopianism were to remain in universities. Oddly enough, the imperial designs in the administration are countered by the sane voice of realism from the universities. Power corrupts.

"Iraq will be the political guinea pig for a new era of U.S.-led democratization and regime change."

  ¶ 10/11/2006 12:35:00 ap.