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To: sylvester80 who wrote (1450)	7/4/2002 6:35:33 PM
From: t2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

syl, That is a frightening story if you think about it. He is calling the US, "the rogue state". He obviously has an anti-American angle but there might be lots of people over there that feel the same way. Over time that can't be good for the American economy. I think this commentary is about Bush. I don't think it really applied to previous administrations. Key points (some are direct quotes from the article) -Instead, the air is thick with the views of the likes of Charles Krauthammer, of the Washington Post. "Unilateralism is the key to our success," he wrote, in describing the world of the next fifty years: a world without protection from nuclear attack or environmental damage for the citizens of any country except the United States; a world where "democracy" means nothing if its benefits are at odds with American "interests"; a world in which to express dissent against these "interests" brands one a terrorist and justifies surveillance and repression. -US not recognizing an international criminal court -reserving the right to use nuclear weapons as a first strike -the American rogue state has torn up the Kyoto treaty, which would decrease global warming and the probability of environmental disaster. -It has further undermined the authority of the United Nations by allowing Israel to block a UN committee's investigation of the Israeli assault on the Palestinian refugee camp at Jenin; and it has ordered the Palestinians to get rid of their elected leader in favour of an American stooge.