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To: Lane3 who wrote (26244)	1/27/2004 1:19:08 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) of 793914

is the polarizing notion of folks in the unilateralist camp that any moderate and reasonable efforts to get along are automatically subservience. That's a minority, I would say. Or angry talking. I disagree with you that it is "typical" to want subservience. What is typical is to eschew unilateralism. I would say that it is typical of those in the internationalist and progressivist camps to want subservience. They just wrap it in the word "multilateral". I would say it is NOT typical to eschew unilateralism. It WAS typical during the brief period of the Cold War, where collective security demanded a sublimation of the narrow national interest. The manichaen world of the Cold War no longer exists, and the way in which we engage our interests in the world are free of the constraints to maintain an alliance in a desperate fight. The gloves are off. What is at issue isn't whether one prefers moderate diplomacy. The issue at hand is whether those who prefer moderate diplomacy prefer moderate diplomacy for its own sake, or as a means to an end. And if that means fails, then other means, unilateral action if necessary, are tools in our bag. Derek

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