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To: Mr. Palau who wrote (528002)	1/22/2004 8:20:51 PM
From: Gary H	Respond to of 769667

>America is a Nation with a mission -- and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace -- a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.< ???????? From Noam Chomsky's book, Hegemony or Survival" America's Quest for global Dominance. “Our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military build-up in hopes of surpassing , or equaling , the power of the United States.” >One well known international affairs specialist , John Ikenberry , described the declaration as a “grand strategy [that] begins with a fundamental commitment to maintaining a unipolar world in which the United States has no peer competitor,” a condition that is to be “permanent [so] that no state or coalition could ever challenge [the US] as global leader, protector, and enforcer.” The declared “renders international norms of self-defense --- enshrined by article 51 of the UN Charter --- almost meaningless.” More generally , the doctrine dismisses international law and institutions as of “little value.” Ikenberry continues: ’The new imperial grand strategy presents the US [as] a revisionist state seeking to parlay its momentary advantages into a world order in which it runs the show,” prompting others to find ways to “work around , undermine , contain and retaliate against US power.” The strategy threatens to “leave the world more dangerous and divided --- and the United States less secure,” a view widely shared within the foreign elite.<

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (528002)	1/22/2004 11:57:48 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Inferior cultures make inferior people, who create inferior nations. They have come to America and murdered thousands. The re-colonization, albeit under the name of "regime change" and "nation building", will continue to gather momentum for the next 20 to 30 years. The future, as the saying goes, is now...