The only way to bring to life the ideas about civics and American history and the ideas about citizenship is through learning. Democracy does not teach itself. ... Higher education has an important role to play in securing a strong American democracy. ... The challenge of bringing new life to American democracy may be the most important issue facing the nation today. ... In America we are not concerned with our domestic problems, the ones which are most relevant to us. ...

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There are four main problems in Iraq that have proven to be roadblocks in their fight for democracy. ... This is a concept that our violent neighboring nation, the United States of America, must begin to recognize. ... Therefore, the United States of America should realize how complicated it can be to achieve complete freedom and democracy. ... Myerson (2006) has developed a model for predicting whether democracy will succeed. ... Myerson (2006) also states that democracy can do one of two things. ...

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For these reasons, the process of creating a democracy is not just going to be about a governmental shift, but will need to contain an entire shift of Iraqi societal ideals in order for the democracy to survive. ... This would show the American people and the world that this entire project of Iraqi Freedom was truly about giving the Iraqi people charge over their own lives (Lawson 4). ... In attempting to create a democracy, we could be upsetting the region's current leaders. ... Overall, the best advice one can give about the creation of a democracy in Iraq is that all parties involved s...

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Assurances of American and British war advocates who maintained that this military action is indeed liberation and not conquest, that Iraqis would welcome such intervention and that the invasion and occupation would place Iraq on the road to democracy. ... How does Bush plan to seed Iraq with democracy? ... Before Operation Democracy can kick off, the war has to be won and the country secured. ... Lingering resistance could also produce a security situation not conducive to democracy building. ... Will Bush the Liberator stick it out in Iraq and export democracy to that troubled nation? ...

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Owen and Widmaier believe that democracies start wars with other democracies as stated in the paragraph. ... Chan and Safran state that most Americans agreed to stop the American government from going to war with Iraq (138). ... Goldsmith states, "democracies tend to win the wars they fight"" (189). ... This helps define that the reasoning for democracies winning wars, is due to democracies spending money on their military. Goldsmith is more elaborate on his works about democracies being more effective at war, while Hayes only focuses on democracies fighting better. ...

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Taking action on that foreign policy, the United States waged a war against terrorism which initiated the invasion of Afghanistan to bring justice to al Qaeda for their terrorist attacks, remove the Taliban regime that supported al Qaeda and their declaration of holy war against America, and establish peace and democracy in Afghanistan. ... The United States had ignored previous terrorist attacks from al Qaeda against Americans and American embassies around the world, yet the attack on American soil could not be ignored. ... Bush had outlined his foreign policy with a doctrine of preemptive wa...

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After the 9/11 attacks, the United States along side with its allies decided to hunt down those responsible for this aggression, and also destroy the bases and network of al-Qaeda and thus defeat terrorism in the world, installing democracy in both Iraq and Afghanistan. ... According to the calculations of the American economist based on the data collected from the US Government Accounting Office, the conflict had cost the US about three trillion dollars and additional costs for the medical care of the soldiers, compensation for the widows, economic funds for the reconstruction of both Iraq a...

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Those ideologies were communism, fascism, and democracy. ... This ultimately left democracy as a prevalent ideological structure, but it also allowed for more power and culture to emerge and rise along the very fundamental lines of religion. ... This occurs especially when people become impotent in the face of overwhelming military might, as in the case of when the Middle East countries faced the US during the Persian Gulf War with America. ... America stands for democracy, capitalism and free markets. ... The West, and the United States in particular, is many times heard to espouse univers...

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The establishment of democracy and the liberation of the Iraqi people from the brutal dictatorship of Sadam Hussein was another goal. ... The American population was also greatly divided in their support of President Bush's decision. ... The United States wanted to bring democracy to Iraq, however we did not respect democracy after declaring that we will proceed regardless of the will of the United Nations. ... Another point taken into consideration would be that with this violent toppling of the Hussein regime, the United States would be forcing democracy on the Iraqi citizens when it ...

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Over the course of the Iraq War, while the military remained engulfed in battle, the rest of the world - America included - continued to be absorbed in the media. ... American media is not state owned, thus one can assume that they don't exhibit the use of subtle propaganda or act as a vehicle for such cases. ... The main purpose of this paper is to show how subtle propaganda affected American media in relation to the War in Iraq and served to change the opinions of the population. ... Another quote from the book suggests that the Iraqis seemed fully aware of America's true motives:...

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In Peter Van Buren's Huffington Post article, "How Not to Reconstruct Iraq, Afghanistan – or America," he explains how the United States' reconstruction of Iraq should not be a sign of American imperialism. ... Another claim by the author is that the United States tried to impose its "American Way" to the countries it has dominated, and in the Iraqi case, that would not be possible because the U.S. culture and lifestyle does not interest those people at all, and that led the whole process to fail. ... Rather than preach imperialism under the cover of reconst...

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If indeed Saddam has the weapons that America claims he does, then the weapons are no different to those already possessed by America, Britain, France, Russia, China and several other countries. ... America also removed Iraq from its" list of "terrorist-sponsoring nations" during the Iraq-Iran war. ... Yet we must face up to the reality that America is the world's only remaining superpower, and the West relies on America to provide more than many would care to admit. ... It would also be hypocritical to accuse America of policing the world and being imperialistic, for Europe was only ...

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It soon became clear with the invasion of Iraq that the plans had been premeditated by the coalition's American leadership for quite some time. ... Men, women and children representing no other social group than society itself chose to attend to demonstrate their shared antipathy not only to the war in Iraq, but to a whole host of other American foreign policies that they are in disagreement with. ... As the whole of the collective domain recognise this, Blair's position became in response one of a moral crusader championing what he would maintain are shared values of freedom and dem...

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They have done things such as publically beheading people who refused to surrender to them and taking Westerners, Americans in particular, as well as women and children as hostages. ... The ISIS government is "a lot like those of some of the Western countries whose values it rejects " if you take away the democracy and add in a council to consider who should be beheaded " (Thompson, Greene and Torre). ... When compared to the French, British and Americans contribution, Canada's effort is "fairly modest " (Drexhage). ... Although Harper did not state Canada's specific roles in...

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