At 04:49 PM 10/11/2004 -0700 d.brin wrote:
>One of my key points in my Salvo is that the rest of the world
>accepted a unipolar world, led by the USA, under Bill Clinton. Most
>not only accepted it tacitly, they accepted it IN PRINCIPLE. Only
>the French and Chinese seemed interested in discussing how to
>re-establish multipolarity and Balance of Power.
You forgot the Russian Federation - which was far more explicit in its
statements of desire for "multipolarity" than France was under Clinton.
India also made quite a few grumblings about multipolarity during this time
- even going so far as to increase its diplomatic ties with China.
US-India relations, of course, increased a great deal under Bush and BJP.
And of course, it is clear that the DPRK, Iraq, Iran, Zimbabwe,
Burma/Myanmar, Yugoslavia/Serbia&Montenegro, Syrian Arab Republic, Sudan,
Taliban Afghanistan, Morocco, Cuba, Angola, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa, Belarus,
Liberia, and Libyan Arab Jamahirriya did not either - based upon their
forceable denunciations of US policy during this time period.
In addition, the members of the Non-Aligned Movement - which encompasses
most of the countries of the developing world - could also hardly be
described as accepting unipolarity "in principle" during this time period.
To the extent that US unipolarity was accepted by any of the above during
this time period, it clearly was more a "tacit" concession of the
inevitable - not a happy acceptance of the principle.
And of course, even today, the US can count on countries like UK,
Australia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Czech Rep.,
Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, the Philippines, Uzbekistan,
Denmark, Portugal, Israel, and the primary opposition parties of Germany
and Spain as happy to accept US leadership - including the War in Iraq.
>Why? Because of Cowboy rationalizations for immature use of Pax
>Americana power. Read the excerpt below Are we prepared to embrace
>this as the standard for offensive military action for all nations of
>the world? Would the world be a safer place?
This article was a caricature of the doctrine of pre-emption.
JDG
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