There was a fine comment in my newspaper today: America, may we call you Empire now? by Marcia Pally. It is very long and a translation from English. I haven't found it to link, so if anyone finds it in one of your newspapers I'd appreciate a link here to the English version.

Another comment in a German magazine: Iraq is attacked not because it has weapons of mass destruction but because it has them not yet, at least not the ones the USA really fear. Every little (or big) despot will now learn the lesson: First get your WMDs (the big ones) and then confront the USA. If the USA really would fear that Saddam has already reliable missiles with atomic warheads that would go only as far as Israel they would have had second thoughts about the attack. This war may be the start of a new weapon race and the end of proliferation control.

Wolfgang