Confounding Failure: American Imperialism and the Implications of the Iraq War
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The American invasion of Iraq is internationally condemned. Most critiques evoke images of a horrific war fought for oil and other staunchly American national interests. There exist several valid reasons to claim that the Iraq War made the United States out to be an oil-hungry power bent on imperial aggrandizement, but the actual context behind the Iraq War is far more complex. For example, although the oil industry was a factor in the US’ decision, the invasion of Iraq was not conducted solely to secure Iraqi oil. While there absolutely were grounds to intervene in Iraq, especially Saddam Hussein’s flagrant human rights violations, the methods by which America entered the war deeply affected the regions of the Middle East and North Africa as well as the United States itself. This paper will attempt to address how the American government’s failure in Iraq under George W. Bush not only brought the United States a worsened international perception, but also brought about several far-reaching consequences that affect the United States’ security as a superpower.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".