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To: JohnM who wrote (95803)	4/23/2003 10:56:11 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Not at all. A "go it alone" foreign policy will only lead to long term decline in US global influence and far more global instability than is healthy for my Qualcomm shares John, they are not "going it alone". They are assembling coalitions and using diplomacy. What did Bush waste six months in the UN getting ambushed by Chirac's folie de grandeur for, if he was "going it alone"? There is a lot of room, which you never seem to account for, between "going it alone" and signing onto every loopy and or politically suicidal treaty the Euros have decided to give lip-service to and use for political cover. How many EU countries have ratified Kyoto? last I looked, only one - Romania, is that right? As for the ICC, it is an unaccountable floating court with vague laws and almost universal jurisdiction, custom designed to 'bell the cat' - to use for politically motivated trials against military powers. You think that a global war crimes court is such a good idea in theory that you have not noticed what it is likely to be in practice. This is not Star Trek, and the ICC will not be The Federation Council.