Yes, the US got it wrong - but it doesn't need to apologise

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What did they get wrong? First, says Fukuyama, they succumbed to the illusion that America's "benign hegemony" would be welcomed as such abroad. Second, they were too confident of their ability to achieve their objects by unilateral action. Third, they embraced a doctrine of pre-emption that depended on greater knowledge of the future than was possible. Above all, they failed to see the potential risks of democracy in the Greater Middle East: namely, that Iraq would fragment or radical Islamists would win elections.

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