FW: Prof. Stiglitz and "The Lawless Sheriff"

John Heelan says: "Perhaps the article " "The Lawless Sheriff" by the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Joseph Stiglitz, has not appeared in the US media. It discusses the Bush Administration and the Iraq War. The flavour of the article is perhaps encapsulated in the following: "More fundamentally, something has gone wrong with the system of checks and balances in America's democracy. Congress and the press should have checked the president. The international community tried. Unfortunately, the global system of international law and governance remains too weak to prevent the determined misbehavior of the president of the world's most powerful country if he is hell bent on starting a war on his own" WAISers can read the complete article in http://www.project-syndicate.org/home/home.php4 [I came across if in El País and it has appeared in other non-US papers.] Joseph E. Stiglitz is Professor of Economics at Columbia University and a member of the Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalization. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001.