IRAQ

The New Republic: THE SELLING OF THE IRAQ WAR.The First Casualty
oreign policy is always difficult in a democracy. Democracy requires openness. Yet foreign policy requires a level of secrecy that frees it from oversight and exposes it to abuse. As a result, Republicans and Democrats have long held that the intelligence agencies--the most clandestine of foreign policy institutions--should be insulated from political interference in much the same way as the higher reaches of the judiciary. As the Tower Commission, established to investigate the Iran-Contra scandal, warned in November 1987, "The democratic processes ... are subverted when intelligence is manipulated to affect decisions by elected officials and the public

"In dieser Schrift legen die Autoren John B. Judis und Spencer Acker-
man aus liberaler Sicht klar, daß die US-Administration mit der
bisherigen Politk zum Irak immer mehr Vertrauen verspielt.
Bedeutend ist diese Schrift deshalb, weil der New Republic den
neokonservativen Leitlinien von Lawrence F. Kaplan folgt"