ABSTRACT
This book explores an overview of the 2003 conflict with the aim of illustrating how the US plan for Iraq is linked to Walzer's understanding of ethics. In the aftermath of the First World War, Britain was awarded the mandate for control over Iraq. Iraqis were unimpressed by the enforced arrangement and 1920 witnessed a brief unification of Shia, Sunni and Kurdish Iraqis during the 'Great Iraqi Revolution'. The US plan for Iraqi society is broadly reflected in two policy initiatives. First, US political administration of Iraq is proposed as a means to cultivate institutions and legal infrastructures compatible with democratic politics; and second, US troops were committed to Iraq in order to foster long-term peace. Sunnis began to turn to violence as a means of political empowerment by viewing themselves as marginalised from society and politically impotent. The evolution of Shia politics and Sunni resistance in response to the occupation illustrates the problems with this conception of post-war justice.
