George Soros writes:>"Bush’s war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Before the invasion of Iraq, we could project overwhelming power in any part of the world. We cannot do so any more because we are bogged down in Iraq. Afghanistan is slipping from our control. North Korea, Iran, Pakistan and other countries are pursuing nuclear programs with renewed vigor and many other problems remain unattended."<
It sounds like Kerry.
Soros' sentiment fits with what my friend Howard Sherman argues, i.e., that the war against Iraq really goes against capitalist class interests (though it is in favor of special interests within that class, e.g., the oil & military industries, the pro-Israel bloc, etc.) It's possible, as Barbara Garson has argued, that the Iraq war will be for the U.S. what the Sicilian adventure was for ancient Athens, i.e., the beginning of the end of empire.
Jim Devine
