"One of the few foreign policy achievements of the Bush
administration has been the creation of a near consensus among those
who study international affairs, a shared view that stretches,
however improbably, from Noam Chomsky to Brent Scowcroft, from the
antiwar protesters on the streets of San Francisco to the well-
upholstered office of former secretary of state James Baker. This new
consensus holds that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a calamity, that
the presidency of George W. Bush has reduced America's standing in
the world and made the United States less, not more, secure, leaving
its enemies emboldened and its friends alienated. Paid-up members of
the nation's foreign policy establishment, those who have held some
of the most senior offices in the land, speak in a language once
confined to the T-shirts of placard-wielding demonstrators. They rail
against deception and dishonesty, imperialism and corruption. The
only dispute between them is over the size and depth of the hole into
which Bush has led the country he pledged to serve..."
The New York Review of Books, June 14, 2007
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20251
