There is growing opposition throughout the world to US and British war plans. The idea that a country should be bombed into oblivion for breaching United Nations resolutions is viewed with interest by Cubans, who have seen the UN pass five resolutions in the last five years calling for the US to end its crippling embargo against Cuba only to see the US ignore them all. A clear majority of Americans oppose military action. It is the position of all Europeans apart from the British. Obviously it is also the position of the Arab world, the Russians, the Chinese.
Opposition is strongest, of course, in the Middle East.
Last Sunday, Palestinians in the Deheishe refugee camp took to the streets to oppose US and British war plans. The current attack against Iraq is the latest chapter in the long history of the carve-up of the Middle East by the superpowers. The United States, with its ally Britain, maintains its dominant position by arming countries like Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey so they can suppress popular, democratic movements in the region. From the Palestinians and Kurds denied their right to a homeland, to the Iraqi child dying for lack of medicines banned by sanctions, the peoples of the Middle East suffer poverty, displacement and war as a result of this continuing carve-up. Before sanctions were imposed, Iraq was one of the most developed countries in the Middle East.