1. Iraq Crisis
... as the "New American Empire", because it reserves the power to judge and punish other countries. "To justify the war, the president has invoked the doctrine of "preventive" war, under wich the United States is to be the sole judge of the douctrine's legitimacy and application. Thus, the war is about more than Iraq; it is about the character of our ... society and the international order in wich we live." (The Nation, 3) According to Mark Phythian, all of this could have been avoided if United States, Britain, and other nations hadn't conducted a covert foreign policy to supply Iraq ... ...
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