Noam Chomsky -- The Case Against US Adventurism in Iraq

Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and company are committed to an "imperial ambition," as G. John Ikenberry wrote in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs -- "a unipolar world in which the United States has no peer competitor" and in which "no state or coalition could ever challenge it as global leader, protector and enforcer."

That ambition surely includes much expanded control over Persian Gulf resources and military bases to impose a preferred form of order in the region.

Common Dreams also has:

Bush Losing the Moral High Ground

The moral case thus is tilting decisively against Bush. It's the absence of effective moral counter-arguments that explains why the international scene has changed so decisively so quickly.