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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (233501)	4/4/2003 1:14:14 PM
From: Horgad	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Makes you wonder why they felt compelled to respond to a conspiracy theory. They usually laugh of that crap and don't give it the time of day. I take Blair's statement as meaning who is next has been discussed maybe even agreed upon, but Blair no longer wants to play ball. Or least that is what I hope...

To: Terry Maloney who wrote (233501)	4/4/2003 7:59:01 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Terry, I ran across this "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood," piece from the boyz at the American Enterprise Institute. It's titled Brave New World - An Enduring Pax Americana aei.org And they're for real. Present at the Creation Having become a test of American power and purpose in the world, war in Iraq will have consequences not simply for Saddam and his regime, or the Iraqi people, or the security balance in the Persian Gulf. A U.S. victory--measured also by the planting of the seeds of liberty and democracy in Baghdad--will define the start of a truly new world order; to steal Dean Acheson's famous phrase, we are present at the creation. What, exactly, we are creating we do not know. It will be necessary to create international institutions that reflect the new realities, and they may even be called the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But if so, those organizations will have to be fundamentally transformed to reestablish the link between the right to make international law and the responsibility to enforce it. In fact, the world that is now suffering its birth pangs in the skies over Iraq and on the ground there is even more likely than the one it grew out of to be a unipolar world, marked by an even greater degree of American primacy and leadership than before. It may further accelerate the stunning spread of democracy and political liberty that has occurred since the collapse of the Soviet empire. We appear to be moving at last from the post-cold-war era--a time defined negatively by what it is not--to the time of an enduring Pax Americana.