The Monthly Review, the oldest and, as ZNet's Michael Albert has said, possibly the most consistent leftist publication in the US brings this Chomsky interview. The Iraq war identified as a test case for the establishment of new norms for the use of military force.

And the future?

"[The Bush administration] have to pull it off for about another six years. By that time they hope they will have institutionalized highly reactionary programs within the United States. They will have left the economy in a very serious state, with huge deficits, pretty much the way they did in the 1980s. And then it will be somebody else's problem to patch it together. Meanwhile, they will have, they hope, undermined social programs, diminished democracy, which of course they hate, by transferring decisions out of the public arena into private hands. and they will have done it in a way that will be very hard to disentangle. So they will have left a legacy internally that will be painful and hard. But only for the majority of the population. The people they're concerned about are going to be making out like bandits. Very much like the Reagan years. It’s the same people, after all."