Hitchens on Iraq: 'slow decline'
Updated on 19 March 2008
Was it worth it? Peter Hitchens gives his verdict on the legacy of the Iraq war, as part of our series of viewpoints from social and political voices.
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"I suspect the single most significant result of the Iraq war will be the slow decline of the United States as the main world power, which will be seen as having begun from that point.
"The other significant results, perhaps more encouraging will, I suspect, be that politicians will in future take more account of the history of the places they plan to invade before they rush in.
"And that the idea that sovereign nations should continue to exist within their own borders might have a bit of a revivial - but I'm not sure about that."
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