Chapter 5. Utopian Plans Lead To Disasters As I said before, I had been strongly opposed to the 2003 Iraq War since the beginning. I knew all that talk about 'spreading freedom' and 'making the world safer' wouldn't actually happen, at the very least. But by 2014, even I was shocked about how bad things had gotten. Vast areas of the Middle East were completely destabilized, and the people living there were suffering immensely. We who lived in the West were also increasingly worried about our own safety, due to the increasing terrorist attacks. Judging from this angle, the Bush administration's decision to launch the Iraq War must have been one of the worst ideas in recent history.
Yet, looking back, there was indeed a substantial proportion of the general public, as well as some policy experts and public intellectuals, who enthusiastically supported the war. They bought all that marketing about 36
