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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (70237)1/30/2003 2:10:37 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
Doubtless some will perceive the US as "going alone" no matter how many allies we have, if we don't get a UNSC vote. However, time will tell how the camps will fall out. Today's declaration by eight European countries that they are with the US and against France and Germany on this issue shows that the camps are forming up.

There are real philosophical differences being uncovered here. The international system supported and propagated by certain circles in Europe and America is one that the Bush Administration is definitely not buying. (Clinton didn't buy it either, but he spoke respectfully of it.)

Kagan's Power and Weakness is a good article on the difference; Fonte's The Ideological War within the West, where he calls the European Left's proposed system "transnational progressivism", is another. Steven Den Beste has linked these articles on his library page for convenience: denbeste.nu

True believers in this international system are going to call us "outlaws"; and so we are. If they really thought we would sign up for this, they were kidding themselves. I think many of them were fooled into thinking that the "benevolent giant" United States would remain locked into the framework of limited action that had been imposed by the Cold War, even though the Cold War is over. But times change and international frameworks don't last forever.
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