As pundits and the Pentagon try to quantify the number of acceptable US casualties [3], 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?' "