Iraq invasion’s democratization vision collapsed into humanitarian tragedy

Evidence

Amnesty International charged the Shiite militia with abducting and killing Sunni civilians, which the militia justified on the grounds that they were terrorists. The Bush administration’s vision that the overthrow of Saddam’s repressive regime would result in a model of nation building that would democratize the Middle East collapsed in a large-scale humanitarian tragedy. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2434

Categorization

• CANDY: Sobering election-conversation fodder: Abu Ghraib-adjacent accountability framing versus the ‘terrorist’ label justifying militia abductions.