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To: FaultLine who started this subject5/23/2003 1:34:23 AM
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Singapore on post-Saddam world: Who needs Europe?

America's victory in Iraq showed it has no need for
'Europe's military assistance or its political validation'

By Goh Chok Tong
SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Tuesday, May 21, 2003
Following are excerpts from an address by Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong to the Asia Society in Washington, D.C. on May 7.


Singapore's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong geopolitical vision calls for a key U.S. role in the emerging "trans-Pacific community" at at time when trans-Atlantic relations have been strained.


I want to speak on some of the key geopolitical challenges for East Asia after Iraq.
The Iraq war focused attention on three sets of issues:

First, America's global pre-eminence. This pre-eminence is the key geopolitical fact of the post-Cold War world. American pre-eminence can be undermined only by a failure of will or by internal disruption. America is unlikely to be seriously challenged by any other country or group of countries for a very long time. The war in Iraq underscored this.

But the Iraq war also catalysed opposition to U.S. pre-eminence, which leads me to my second point: the resistance of France, Russia, Germany and others in the UN Security Council to military action against Iraq has raised grave questions about the future of the UN.

Third, America's victory showed that the U.S. did not need Europe's military assistance or its political validation. This raises profound questions about the future of trans-Atlantic relations; indeed, about the very definition of 'The West' that has been the cornerstone of global stability since the Second World War.
I hope that a new modus vivendi for trans-atlantic relations can be reached. But this evening, I will focus on the first two issues: the reaction of East Asia to U.S. global pre-eminence, and secondly, the future of the UN.
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