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2 weeks agoHubris Without Idealism
U.S. presidents repeatedly encourage foreign populations to overthrow their governments without providing support, resulting in failed regime-change attempts and humanitarian disasters.
Iraqis in the audience broke out in cheers, leapt up from their seats and pumped their fists in the air many had waited decades for that moment. This is a great day in Iraq's history, Bremer said, adding: The tyrant is a prisoner. I was in the audience that day in Baghdad, covering the Iraq invasion's aftermath as a correspondent for a US newspaper.