A NATION LOST

By James Carroll
Boston Globe, 4/22/2003

EVEN BEFORE conclusions can be drawn about the war in Iraq (Saddam? Weapons of mass
destruction? Iraqi stability? Cost to civilians? Syria?) a home front consensus is jelling around a
radical revision of America's meaning in the world.

Centered on coercive unilateralism, the new doctrine assumes that the United States not only stands
apart from other countries but above them. The primitive tribalism of boys at football games --
''We're number one!'' -- has been transformed into an axiom of strategy....

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