foreign affairs / The Logic of Empire The Logic of Empire The United States is now our foremost enemy. We must begin to treat it as such. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 6th August 2002 There is something almost comical about the prospect of George Bush waging war on another nation because that nation has defied international law. Since Mr Bush came to office, the United States government has torn up more international treaties and disregarded more UN conventions than the rest of the world has done in twenty years. It has scuppered the biological weapons convention, while...