http://www.futureofthebook.org/iraqreport/4-police-and-criminal-justice/ Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.futureofthebook.org/iraqreport/4-police-and-criminal-justice/#comment-264 Kevin Baker Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:59:24 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/iraqreport/4-police-and-criminal-justice/#comment-264 Considering the make-up of the Interior Ministry, this would have been rather like saying that Tammany Hall should purge itself of Democrats. Considering the make-up of the Interior Ministry, this would have been rather like saying that Tammany Hall should purge itself of Democrats.

]]> http://www.futureofthebook.org/iraqreport/4-police-and-criminal-justice/#comment-263 Kevin Baker Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:58:10 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/iraqreport/4-police-and-criminal-justice/#comment-263 But how, in the long-run, will subordinating the National Police to the military create the sort of civil society the Study Group claims to want in Iraq? Isn't this just one more lurch away from the model democracy, and toward a new strongman? But how, in the long-run, will subordinating the National Police to the military create the sort of civil society the Study Group claims to want in Iraq? Isn’t this just one more lurch away from the model democracy, and toward a new strongman?

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