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Thread #58212   Message #921564
Posted By: toadfrog
30-Mar-03 - 12:46 AM
Thread Name: BS: When Democracy Failed - Historical Parallels
Subject: RE: BS: When Democracy Failed - Historical Parallels
Yes Don. And here's yet another think-tank. LINK HERE I quote:
    "Having become a test of American power and purpose in the world, war in Iraq will have consequences not simply for Saddam and his regime, or the Iraqi people, or the security balance in the Persian Gulf. A U.S. victory--measured also by the planting of the seeds of liberty and democracy in Baghdad--will define the start of a truly new world order; to steal Dean Acheson's famous phrase, we are present at the creation. What, exactly, we are creating we do not know. It       will be necessary to create international institutions that reflect the new realities, and they may even be called the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But if so, those organizations will have to be fundamentally transformed to reestablish the link between the right to make international law and he responsibility to enforce it."

That's wild and wooly stuff, all right!