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To: GST who wrote (155163)	1/4/2005 9:54:09 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 281500

.the US see itself as the world's sole superpower, and as a consequence sees itself as sufficiently powerful that it can act unilaterally whenever and wherever it sees fit. Nope....only when our national security is at stake....as in Afghanistan or Iraq......J.

To: GST who wrote (155163)	1/4/2005 10:50:42 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 281500

the US see itself as the world's sole superpower.. So far so good, the US is the world's sole superpower now. ..sees itself as sufficiently powerful that it can act unilaterally whenever and wherever it sees fit. Well, you have your own definition of unilateral. In reality, we have allies helping in Iraq and Afghanistan. Furthermore, I know we've preferred to act multilaterally - witness the negotiations re. NK, the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), and so forth. The US sees little need to strengthen the international institutions and institutional arrangements that might constrain its action as a superpower. Well, it would be pretty foolish of us to try to tie our own hands. ..with a greatly diminished role to exert global leadership. I don't see that. We are exercising leadership now in Iraq, in the PSI, in the tsunami relief effort. Looks like it to me anyway.