Democracy Promotion Turned Into a Feminist Effort

Democracy promotion sort of turned into a euphemism for, hey, we're gonna invade you. The single biggest strategic gift to Iran since the Iranian revolution was the American invasion of Iraq and the installation of a Shia-led government. And so this, the same Neocons who are always frothing at the mouth about the need to take on the Iranians, they didn't project forward what it would mean to kind of upend the sectarian conflict that had been simmering underneath Saddam Hussein's rule.