[MattAMiller]

I find this insightful, but I think the author oversimplifies the "Rumsfeld strategy." What the administration is trying to do is not impose US domination but instead bestow a large portion of the power of the UN to a coalition of democratic states of which the US is a very senior member.

I think Europeans (and Canadians and many Austrailians) fail to see this because they have either lost faith in the specialness of liberty or have become hostile to it.

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There's plenty of hope for the Australians.

If you only read their media, they appear more hopeless than France.

But somebody down under elected John Howard, and he's one of the real stalwarts in the ongoing battles.