In this reprise of an April, 2000 post from FmH I just stumbled upon while looking back for something else, a prescient Mikhail Gorbachev Warns The US Of Its Dangerous “Superiority Complex” ‘and said that, if the 21st century became known as the second “American Century”, the rest of the world would have suffered. Speaking in New York, the former Soviet President criticised Madeleine Albright, the US Secretary of State, for saying that there were exceptional circumstances in which the US had the right to use military force unilaterally, even if other countries objected.’ Times of London [via Common Dreams]