WELL CON'D (from below):
"Even more interesting (and upsetting) is that Bush has allowed the US to become SO arrogant in its actions that he is unable to enlist help/cooperation from many nations."
Well, two exceptions:
1. Bush had no trouble getting help from people who had close-up experience with totalitarians (eastern europe, the Vaclav Havels of the world) and those who have had actual experience with al Qaeda-related terrorism (e.g. Australia)
2. You don't have to be terribly cynical to believe that other nations might've had reasons of their own to oppose going into Iraq: China, famously, doesn't care about anything that doesn't have to do with China. France, Germany and Russia were variously violating arms-shipping restrictions (one ought to add international arms-shipping restrictions), and some had big, fat oil contracts with Saddam Hussein. You don't have to be cynical to not take Schroder and Chirac at their word on this one.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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