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To: marcos who wrote (155325)	1/5/2005 6:55:25 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

<... and therein lies the problem> Yes, exactly. Now what to do about the problem. One approach is to strengthen international institutions. This approach is dead in America. Alternatively, you can do everything in your superpower to gut the authority of international institutions - the Bush approach. That is why the concept of unilateralism is so important to the Bush foreign policy -- it is not merely Iraq that is at issue. If it was just a matter of Iraq the world would not much care. But it is not just that. It is the role of the United States as unipolar superpower versus any international institutions that might in some way limit the exercise of US power. Unilateralism is clear on this -- the US, and only the US, can judge what is "right" and what is "wrong". The Geneva Conventions? Irrelevant. The World Court? Irrelevant. The UN Security Council? Irrelevant. And so on it goes -- they are all irrelevant under US unilateralism. The only relevant thing is whether you line up and salute the American flag whenever and wherever we choose to run it up the poll. You either salute the American flag or face being condemned as a Saddam lover and terrorist sympathizer. You are with us or you are with the terrorists -- is that clear enough for you? That is the unilateral world of George Bush. And it does not work.