Did not the US make mistakes?

now also believe that it is high time the U.S. should also accept that she made some mistakes!
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Her first mistake is changing her worldly image.

The U.S. has tried to build herself the image of "leader of the free world" or "the wealth bringer for the other nations" for so many years especially after the Second World War. Her positive image reached her climax during the Clinton era.

The U.S. had won the image of "the benevolent imperial state" during the past 10 years.
Unfortunately, this image abruptly changed for the U.S. in this war. This war has proven to the world that the U.S. is the omnipotent but now she is accepted as "the greatest" because of fear not of appreciation.

Thus, the new image for the U.S. is "the enforcing imperial state".

That may cost a lot to the U.S. and the world in the future.

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The U.S. has also blown down the transnational organizations of the world like the U.N. or NATO; the associations that will be needed most in the era of globalization.

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I had also written in the April 15 Daily News edition:

"Moreover, millions will now feel that the new era of rising terrorism against the U.S. and Israel will have some justification.

‘Violence attracts violence’"

I honestly feel that the U.S. should abruptly do something about this new negative image that is bought by millions in the world.

The first stage in my eyes is to bring peace to "the Palestinian problem" that will Israel and Palestine accept both.

On the other hand if the U.S. is not careful enough northern Iraq may easily become a second Palestine for the Middle East.

The U.S. has won a victory but is not very knowledgeable about the sociology of the area.

Sincerely I do not think that she is well aware of "the tribal sociology".

Thus, she may face difficulty in arising the Kurdish, Turkmen, Islamic or Christian Arab tribes to nation states.

The U.S. does need Turkey’s great experience in the area in building a new nation out of Iraq.

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Now look at this news in newspapers only a month later (May 19) than what I or others have written in similar lines:

"(After three terrorist attacks on Israel) After convening his cabinet tonight, Mr. Sharon issued an implicit repudiation of a new international peace plan, which calls for simultaneous concessions by both sides and rapid political progress to achieve peace and a Palestinian state in just three years.

"Peace can only be achieved after terror has been eradicated and there is quiet here," read a statement released by Mr. Sharon’s office. "Only then will we be able to make progress through political channels."

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Or read this news:

"The (terrorist) attacks were also a blow, a deliberate one, it seemed, to the new Palestinian government of Mr. Abbas, fanning Israeli doubts about his ability or willingness to fight terrorism. Further, Mr. Abbas had been hoping that President Bush would persuade Mr. Sharon during their meeting, which had been scheduled for Tuesday, to accept the new peace plan, known as the road map."

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How about this one?

"The looting, lawlessness and violence (in Iraq) that planners thought would mar only the first few weeks has proved more widespread and enduring than Mr. Bush and his aides expected and is threatening to undermine the American plan.

Five weeks after Baghdad fell, Mr. Bush finds himself exactly where he did not want to be: forced to impose control with a larger number of troops and to delay the start of efforts to turn power over to Iraqis."