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To: GST who wrote (112698)	8/26/2003 3:43:08 AM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (7) of 281500

Unfortunately, unilateralsim is not in our own self-interest. You say so but don't demonstrate your assertion. It is quite possibly better to do things with others if you can achieve your objectives. But what do you do if others don't want you to achieve those objectives? You seem to think that US allies all have pure motives. They don't. France, for instance, has no pure motives with regard to the US except to limit the US to the degree this will further French goals. French leadership has said so. They differ from other US allies only in their "up frontness". Furthermore, French objectives may well include direct harm to US interests. You seem to think that multilateralism is some sort of universal good - much like your utopian fantasy about international law. Not so. France and some other European countries, like some posters to this board, refuse to see the on going world wide war between modernist and reactionary forces. It appears they will continue to try not to see it until it appears on the Champs Elysee. And that's a shame because Paris is such a pretty town. In the meantime is the US is supposed to hold itself apart from the conflict until the dreadful point the French, etc., get it?

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