Gar Alperovitz

About the Author: Gar Alperovitz is president of the National Center for Economic Alternatives, a research and policy institute in Washington, D. C. He is the author of Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam.

The Gulf war cut to the heart of America's political- economic system, brutally laying bare some ugly truths about our leadership and our very nature as a people.

The war revealed George Bush to be a "true believer," ideologically committed to a particular global perspective for which he is willing to kill. The President's conviction that he is creating a New World Order through war is, in fact, a radical idea—quite different from the judgment of almost half the members of the U.S. Senate who (before timidly rallying 'round the flag) voted against the use of force...