> For the US nationalists (including quite a few 'leftists'), a
> brink draws into view, as they are forced to contemplate the
> unthinkable: A few thousand rag-tag Iraqi Arab insurgents stood >up to the Americans when all the world scurried to do the US's
> bidding.
Surely it's an exaggeration to say that,"all the world scurried to do the US's bidding." Indian Parliament passed a resolution criticizing the US assault on Iraq. The resolution was passed _unanimously_.
>The Iraqi insurgency saved the world from American
> hegemony,
Has the Iraqi insurgency really destroyed the US hegemony? Is that hegemony so brittle that "a few thousand rag-tag Iraqi Arab insuregent" could overthrow it and save the world?
Ulhas