U.S. Bid To Dominate Invites Disaster - Gorbachev

By REUTERS

Published: May 30, 2005

Filed at 1:18 p.m. ET

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. efforts to dominate the world could end in disaster, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's last leader who launched an era of cooperation with the United States that ended the Cold War, said on Monday.

A critic of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Gorbachev called for the rapid withdrawal of what he called occupation forces, warning: ``The longer they stay, the worse the situation will get.