Almost Done
Revelation of sickening but forseeable American abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq nearly completes the process by which President Bush's ill-conceived foreign policy is utterly squandering the USA's global political capital. This President has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by turning virtually unanimous global outrage at the 9/11 attacks on the USA into virtually unanimous global revulsion at American foreign policy, and in the process, performed the hat trick of making the principled sacrifices of three generations of Americans in two world wars and the cold war as meaningless as confederate dollars to our contemporaries around the world.