THE WISDOM FUND: News & Views
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
March 13, 2003

The Case Against U.S. Adventurism in Iraq

by Noam Chomsky

The most powerful state in history has proclaimed that it intends to control the world by force, the dimension in which it reigns supreme. . . .

The consequences could be catastrophic in Iraq and around the world. The United States may reap a whirlwind of terrorist retaliation -- and step up the possibility of nuclear Armageddon. . . .

Last October, when Congress granted the president the authority to go to war, it was "to defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq."

But no country in Iraq's neighborhood seems overly concerned about Saddam, much as they may hate the murderous tyrant.

Perhaps that is because the neighbors know that Iraq's people are at the edge of survival. Iraq has become one of the weakest states in the region. As a report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences points out, Iraq's economy and military expenditures are a fraction of some of its neighbors'. . . .

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