HIS404H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Preemptive War, Casus Belli
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There is a hesitancy on the part of americans to acknowledge failures in the decision to go to war but a willingness to criticize the actions of one"s predecessors without offering an alternative. The readiness of the bush administration to go to war in iraq is partly explained by the neoconservative obsession with iraq. American war with needing 9/11 as a causus belli. In terms of the economy, there is a huge oil interest, military industrial complex, and also political/economic/idealistic dimension of wanting democracy in the middle east. In terms of security, there was a hope that the war in. Iraq would deter future wmd producers as well as iraq (at the beginning) from using its wmds ( preemptive war ),
