This war is not justified

Jonathan Glover writes in the Guardian that the US and Britain do not have the "moral authority" to initiate a war on Iraq. And, he warns,

There is an extra dimension to the decision about this particular war. The choice made this time may be one of the most important decisions about war ever made. This is partly because of the great risks of even a "successful" war. The defeat even of Saddam Hussein's cruel dictatorship may contribute to long-term enmity and conflict between the west and the Islamic world. In what is widely thought in the Islamic world to be both an unjustified war and an attack on Islam, an American victory may be seen as an Islamic humiliation to be avenged. This war may do for our century what 1914 did for the 20th century. And there is an ominous sense of our leaders, as in 1914, being dwarfed by the scale of events and sleepwalking into decisions with implications far more serious than they understand.

Update: Jack Beatty of the Atlantic echoes this sentiment. He writes that this upcoming war could be "the first war in our history in which success is as fearful a prospect as failure. When we 'win,' our troubles will just begin."