Historian (and former policy

analyst on the staff of US Rep. Bernie Sanders) Jeremy Brecher: “The Bush administration and its successors are likely to continue this juggernaut until they are made to stop… As the Bush administration sought global support for its attack on Iraq, the New York Times wrote, “The fracturing of the Western alliance over Iraq and the huge antiwar demonstrations around the world this weekend are reminders that there may still be two superpowers on the planet: the U.S. and world opinion.” But is that “tenacious new adversary” with whom President Bush appeared “eyeball to eyeball” really a superpower, or is it just a well-intentioned but ineffective protest against the inexorable advance of the Bush juggernaut?” Foreign Policy in Focus