Expressions like “the ethics of political work” elicit scorn and mockery in Iraq. These come not only from average citizens who have experienced a painful past and are still going through a harrowing present in their relationship with politics, leading them to see politics as anything but ethical, but also from politicians themselves. A wide spectrum of the Iraqi political class views politics as a way for leaders to rid themselves of obligations, break promises and manipulate and falsify facts for their own gain.
This article does not aim to study the historical roots of the concept of politics, nor the services the field offers or breakthroughs it achieves in organizing society, expressing its will, solving its problems and internal crises or protecting humanity from extermination in continuous wars.
