QUOTE: David Frum in the Telegraph:
"The great geopolitical lesson of the Iraq war is that America, despite its strength, does not wish to be a unilateral power. Americans understand and value the international legitimacy that comes from acting with others - and are prepared to pay the political price for joint action.
On the other hand, the existing structures of multilateralism now stand condemned in American eyes. Jacques Chirac's opposition to American policy went beyond dissent, which Americans will always accept, to outright sabotage - pressuring former French colonies, for example, to follow France's orders against America."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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