Democracy: Iraq’s vital ingredient?
Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Our friends at POMED draw our attention to an op-ed in The Guardian by Hayder al-Khoei, a researcher at London’s Centre for Academic Shi’a Studies, which disputes the consensus that Iran has emerged as the strategic victor following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. To the contrary, he argues, Iraq is the ultimate winner since there is