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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (85807)	3/24/2003 8:26:59 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

believe that a large portion of this global public opinion is a venting of dislike against America's pre-eminent role in the world, and that the war is an ideal pretext for people to finally say what they really think, in the manner of some kind of safety valve releasing Agreed. I think the world has had a year and more to digest what happened in Afghanistan. The US reached around to the other side of the planet and won a war in short order, in the same place that the neighboring Russians had been humbled only twenty years ago. It was literally one of the least accessible places on earth for the US Armed forces, and it didn't matter. Our Air Force circled the earth, literally. The lasting image of the first war of the 21st century? A CIA spotter in Uzbek dress riding a mountain pony to call down bombing so accurate that the Afghans became convinced that the laser spotting device was really a new American death ray. The rest of the world saw this, digested the implications, noticed that Russia and China were in no position to even try to stop us, and got scared. The rest is commentary.

To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (85807)	3/24/2003 8:46:39 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Dennis, My problem with that is the point that it says hatred of American individualism. My guess is a great deal of the world, let's say the Europeans, could care less about the "individualism." Rather, it's the extravagant power and the arrogant rhetoric surrounding it. I think Iraq is only a stimulus. Thus, I think Fareed Zakaria is correct when he argues that all future international crises, let's say North Korea as one looming on the horizon, are going to be more about the exercise of US power than about North Korea.