Abstract

The Importance of Losing

The article focuses on the mistake with the U.S. policy in Iraq. The U.S. has committed several blunders in implementing its policy for Iraq, such as failing to provide the nation with a government that serves its own people and privatizing substantial portions of the Iraqi economy. But they are only secondary mistakes. The basic mistake was the Iraqi war itself. Several reasons have been given for waging war but those in power overlook some obvious facts. First, that people, resist the occupation by foreign powers. Second, that disarmament can only be achieved by the common voluntary will of nations, not war. The thinking that the U.S. must win the war is wrong. Instead, it must lose this war and give back Iraqis their country and the privilege to create a liberal democracy.