Those of us who opposed the bombing of Afghanistan warned that the war betweennations would not stop there. Now, as Tony Blair prepares the British people foran attack on Iraq, the conflict seems to be proliferating faster than most of uspredicted. But there is another danger, which we have tended to neglect: that ofescalating hostilities within the nations waging this war. The racial profilingwhich has become the unacknowledged focus of America's new security policy is indanger of provoking the very clash of cultures its authors appear to perceive.