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Iraq in a Nutshell
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Who's Who?

William Kristol -- editor of the Weekly Standard magazine

Frederick W. Kagan -- a military analyst at a prominent think tank, the American Enterprise Institute.

Neocon Philosophy (based on LA Times article 1/4/07, for more about neocons - see Iraq in a Nutshell)

• Advocate aggressive foreign and military policies to implant democracy and American values abroad.

• Argued that building democracy in the Arab world could foster reform throughout the region.

Views on Iraq

• The neocons believe that the U.S. did not employ enough troops to stabilize Iraq and concentrated too heavily on killing insurgents rather than securing law and order.

• The neocons advocate a manpower-heavy counterinsurgency campaign that incorporates small outposts in  troubled neighborhoods allowing U.S. soldiers to interact with ordinary Iraqis.

• Even before 9/11, the Neocons saw Hussein as a threat to world security and advocated war with Iraq to get rid of him.

• The neocons believed that a democratic Iraq would serve as a model for other Middle East countries. Citizens of neighboring countries, it was believed, would campaign for democracies in their own nations. 

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