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To: MSI who wrote (69245)	1/27/2003 7:28:38 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

It's the kind of sophistry going around these days, which means, when you parse it, that (a)contrary countries or people don't matter, and (b)we will do what we want, with or to any country we wish. This contradicts any notion of internat'l rule of law, obviously. "Trashing Westfailia" is a quaint phrase for ruining credibility and fomenting opposition and suspicion for many years to come. Oh, there will be a few who adopt this attitude you deplore, but I don't think they have as much influence as you may think. There is no doubt, however, that our hyperpower is changing the rules in ways no one has imagined. A lot more people were killed in Rwanda than in Bosnia and Kosovo. Our military could have stopped the genocide instantly with hardly more than a regiment. Why didn't we move? Good question. I think it has to do with our developing sense of who we are and how we exercise our hyperpower. We will occasionally have to act unilaterally, in the face of almost global opposition. Iraq is one of those times, at least in my view. C2@withgreatpowercomesgreatresponsibility.com