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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: michael97123 who wrote (154621)	12/22/2004 7:29:34 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Bilateral is two-sided -- you can have bilateral talks or you can have multilateral talks. But you cannot have unilateral talks. You can however have a unilateral attack. Or you can have a response to defend yourself against a unilateral attack. But you cannot have a bilateral attack and you cannot have a multilateral attack. You can have a multilateral response to a unilateral attack -- as we saw in the first gulf war and in WWII. We helped organize a multilateral coalition to repsond to the unilateral attack on Kuwait. Your inability to understand the concept of one-sided (unilateral) action limits your ability to understand the meaning of a foreign policy based on unilateralism (a one-sded approach to foreign policy issues) -- the bedrock of the US foreign policy under George Bush. We are not isolated from the rest of the world because of what France, or China, or Germany or Russia or the rest of the world has done -- we are isolated because we choose to pursue a foreign policy that no other self-respecting country in the world could accept -- US unilateralism. We believe we live in a unipolar world where others will accept our unilateralism because the have no choice. We believe we can invade countries and dictate the terms and conditions. We believe that we can declare international institutions "irrelevant" whenever we do not get our way. We have a policy -- unilateralism -- and we have isolated ourselves from the rest of the world. We show very little understanding of the issues the world is facing, and we show little interest in what concerns others have about our inaction on key global issues. We no longer lead -- we isolate ourselves instead and engage in bravado about not letting anybody else tell us what to do.