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Iraq: 20 Years On | Invasion, Occupation and Failures
Intelligence Squared
What Happened in Basra?
The idea that troops and guns can lead to bring democracy on their own is something we should learn from what happens in Iraq. The new Iraq wasn't necessarily to serve the people, it was to empower a new elite coming from abroad. You know 20% of Iraqis married across sectarian lines before invasion; there were different religious interpretations of Islam but they weren't killing each other or anything like that. But after 2003, as this elite come back, they need to build constituencies and they can't do it easily going to neighborhoods that they don't know. This is where sectarianism starts to seep into the equation. And you start getting Sunni, Shia neighborhoods again towards civil war very quickly after the
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