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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (8960)9/23/2003 8:50:09 PM
From: Dayuhan   of 793759
 

"Is France an ally or an adversary of the United States?" Cheney demanded to know

We’re asking that question all over the world, and it pisses people off. Most people define their positions according to their own self-interest, which may align with American interests at some times and may deviate from American interests at other times. The notion that everyone in the world has to be either an ally – and Washington’s definition of “ally” often sounds disturbingly close to “vassal” – or an adversary is simply untenable.

"This is about power politics. The French want a multipolar world, and that world doesn't conform to reality," said John C. Hulsman, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. "But some unilateralists in Washington see the world as a tabula rasa to be written on, and that doesn't correspond to reality, either.

That sums it up pretty well. The answer is not with one extreme or the other, but somewhere in between, and we won’t find it by demanding that everyone ride one ship or the other.
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