Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 13:33:31 -0400
From: Richard Moodey <moodey001-AT-mail1.gannon.edu>
Subject: Re: BHA: Kolko, The Age of Unilateral War


List,

Kolko's last two paragraphs are chilling.  This is not a good time to be a 
U.S. citizen.  It is very difficult to resist the desire to retreat from 
the political world altogether.  The victory celebrations of some increase 
the sense of alienation on the part of very many of us.  We feel both 
powerless and without a sense of direction.  We will get over it, probably.

Dick Moodey

>The reality is that the world is increasingly multipolar, economically and 
>technologically, and that the U.S.' desire to maintain absolute military 
>superiority over the world is a chimera. Russia remains a military 
>superpower, China is becoming one, and the world should have confronted 
>and stopped the proliferation of destructive weaponry 20 years ago. It can 
>only be done, if it is still possible, by international accords and 
>bodies--such as the UN--which the United States rejects as a constraint on 
>its power. The U.S. has no alternative but to accept the world as it is, 
>or prepare for doomsday.
>
>Unfortunately, there is not the slightest indication America will 
>acknowledge the limits of its aspirations. The crisis in NATO and the 
>dissolution of its dominant role in Europe reflects this diffusion of all 
>forms of power and the diminution of American hegemony, which remains far 
>more an unattainable aspiration than a reality.




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