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To: FaultLine who wrote (81057)	3/10/2003 9:31:06 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm not a big fan of Kissinger's; in fact, the opposite could be said. But this quote from that article strikes me as more than a little far sighted. At the same time, intervention in Iraq must be conceived as part of a continuum whose ultimate success depends both on the strategy that precedes and follows it. America's special responsibility, as the most powerful nation in the world, is to work toward an international system that rests on more than military power _ indeed, that strives to translate power into cooperation. Any other attitude will gradually isolate and exhaust us. Even when, on issues of ultimate national security such as Iraq, America acts alone, it is in our national interest to couple it with a program of postwar reconstruction, conveying to the rest of the world that our first preemptive war has been imposed by necessity and that we seek the world's interests, not exclusively our own.