No matter how often 'W' insists that the U.S just wants to clear the weapons of mass destruction out of Iraq, help the Iraqi people set up a democratic society and then leave, it falls on deaf ears. Many Europeans and much of the Arab world persist in believing that Pax Americana is just around the corner. To most Americans such concerns sound like the fevered rants of 1960's campus radical on LSD. George W. Bush doesn't want an empire, and knows that if he did the American people would fire him.[...]