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To: TimF who wrote (154503)	12/20/2004 6:24:13 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Unprovoked and unilateral are not the same thing> Unilateral in war is merely one prong of our approach. We take a similar approach on other global issues -- the environment for example. We assign ourselves the right to do as we please as we have on greenhouse gasses. Washington was once a place where global leadership was exerted -- now it is just a place where American leaders display their ignorance and disdain for the rest of the world. We reserve the unilateral right to set environmental standards that are a threat to the world. Again, the usage is "one-sided" -- "unprovoked" being the example usage in the case of war. Unilateral is closely associated with the uni-polar world that we believe exists -- and that we believe we have a divine right to dominate as we see fit -- others be damned.