Pax Americana: Uncle Sam’s Globe-shaped Cross

NEW YORK -- The dilemma of our misadventure in Mesopotamia: fighting for Pyrrhic victory, or declaring a Nixonian "peace with honor." If more recent lessons are learned from the Israelis’ pragmatic but humiliating withdrawals from South Lebanon and the Gaza, we are once again faced with that demoralizing choice: a "Pyrrhic peace."