January 13, 2006

Drinking the Kool-Aid: an Anatomy of the Iraq Debacle

By MARK LEONARD

The Iraq war started as a war of ideas. It erupted from the most exhilarating and divisive clash of ideology since the end of the cold war. Every facet of the case for war became a site of conflict. And now the battle to interpret its legacy is every bit as fraught. After the polemics arguing for or against invasion, and the fly-on-the-wall accounts of the run-up to war, a third generation of books now asks whether the Iraq venture was doomed to fail.

This latest crop suggests that the

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