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To: frankw1900 who wrote (108994)	7/31/2003 1:38:20 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The United States can lend its support to improving the system by which international law is defined and conducted, but the United States has no moral authority to unilaterally force its will on people outside the United States -- to dispose of them as the United States sees fit. The United States today only has the power of the gun. We are not better than others, we are just better-armed. By invading Iraq, we traded international justice for the law of the gun -- whoever can kill most effectively is the ruler of this world. And we are paying the price for that arrogance -- not only in our blood and the blood of others, not only in dollars, but just as importantly in terms of the respect for our "values". The United States was once a large country in the eyes of the world -- a country with moral authority. Now the United States is a very small country, a morally weak but well-armed country. Small wonder that people around the world are asking themselves if we are the greatest threat to peace on earth. Message 19166087