America’s foreign policy elite increasingly came to perceive the US as a Gulliver tied down and oppressed by political midgets, with their laws of nations, treaties, and multilateral institutions. The existing world order – created by the US itself – was first devalued in American eyes, then weakened, and finally consciously attacked.
Joschka Fischer
For the support and encouragements that made Saddam Hussein possible.
(Thanks Frits for the tip!)
