Letter: Price of war in Iraq too high for new world order

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 | 9:59 a.m.

As historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. observed in the July/August 1995 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, "We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money."

The toll inflicted on our nation by the war in Iraq is merely a down payment on the price of building a connected world envisioned by the movers and shakers behind the scenes, and described in such clinical fashion by Barnett.

To those whose sons, daughters, fathers and mothers return from Iraq in caskets, that price is much too high.

FRANK M. PELTESON

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