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US on wrong side of history Jonathan Power May 12, 2002 It is the reflex America-must-be-in-charge- or-we-don’t-do-it mentality of the neo-conservatives who wield so much influence in Washington combined with the anti-internationalism of the Christian right Of all the many ironies in President George Bush’s decision to remove America from membership of the treaty establishing an International Criminal Court - its own adherence to the supremacy of law, its enthusiastic initiating of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its primary role in setting up the ad hoc international court that is now trying Milosevic - none is more to...

EYES ABROAD: The return of Vichyism By Bret Stephens READING ABOUT the recent upsurge in anti-Semitic attacks and anti-Israel feeling in Europe, two points are clear. The first point is that the perpetrators of the attacks are mainly Arab. In Montpellier, France, three Moroccans confessed to throwing Molotov cocktails at a synagogue. In Antwerp, Belgium, 14 Muslims are under arrest for smashing car and store windows in the city's diamond district. In Berlin, Germany, the men who set upon a Lubavitcher are described in a police report as Suedlaendisch - southlanders. The second point is that those protesting Israel are...