Reply #6: I don't think the world ever looked to US for moral authority

[Laughing Mirror]

The world cowered at the US's own atrocities and genocides because US was perceived as being all-powerful. Iraq, however, I think exposes the myth. I think it's the first time the world sees how the debt-ridden US, in spite of all the tanks and bombers and bravado, is in fact weak and vulnerable. The world, because of Iraq, feels more confident now in speaking up against bad US policies, which have become more transparent because our gloating, vain, corrupt, greedy rulers are quite up-front and open about their policies and they no longer try to hide them as our past more benign rulers have done.

On edit: One more thing. I remember world sentiment turning against US before invasion began. Remember the UN? Remember the 10 million people all across the world who went out into the streets on February 15, 2003 to say No, before the invasion actually began?