Global Anger Grows Against US War on Iraq

Source: New York Times, March 27, 2003 As pundits and the Pentagon try to quantify the number of acceptable US casualties, world-wide opposition to the attack on Iraq grows by the day. The New York Times notes that "the public mood in many countries around the world seemed to become angrier and more sarcastic than ever... . Another day of global protest is being advertised on Web sites and posters for Sunday, April 6. If there was a common image summoned up by the protests and angry commentaries, it was of the United States as an imperial power intoxicated by its military supremacy but receiving a lesson in the price of arrogance by unexpected Iraqi resistance. ... 'The world's only remaining superpower is beginning to suffer from the disease with which every imperial power throughout history has been afflicted: the overestimation and overtaxing of its own capabilities,' Germany's Der Spiegel said. 'Could the Iraq war herald its decline?' "