Transition to an empire
"WHEN General Jay Garner landed in Iraq and arrived in bombed and looted Baghdad he declared: 'This is a great day.' As if his presence miraculously ended the thousand and one problems afflicting ancient Mesopotamia. What is astonishing is not the obscenity of the statement but the resignation and apathy with which the media covered the installation of the man who should really be called the proconsul of the United States. As if there were no longer international law."