But there is also the global impact, which has to be considered more broadly than the short term effect on a particular target of US intervention. Is is desirable that the US be the dominant global power with untrammelled unilateral power to order the affairs of the whole world by military force if necessary? That is the meaning, quite expressly stated, of the Bush doctrine, that no one will ever be allowed to challenge the US militarily. Rice says this is OK because we're special. Hitch buys this. What about you, Nathan, and you Dennis? What does that sort of role bespeak for democracy on a global scale? I hate to invoke dialectical thinking, but isn't that is what is called for here, a focus on the totality?
jks
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