Rising anti-US trend forcing * to adjust terror war tactics: analysts

[kainah]

MANILA (AFP) - Resentment abroad over US President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s alleged unilateralism is forcing Washington to gradually adjust its tactics in the global war on terror, US analysts said at a forum in the Philippines.

The world's remaining superpower alienated key European allies France and Germany earlier this year when it and Britain invaded Iraq (news - web sites) despite failing to win specific authorization from the UN Security Council.

"In a way, the strategic problems we face is seeing others getting up against us because they distrust the way in which we are exercising our power," former undersecretary of state for political affairs Michael Armacost told the Foreign Correspondents Association in Manila Thursday.

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"There needs to be adjustment in the way that the US uses its power and exercises its influence in the world that we havent made yet. But I think that there are clear signs that this message slowly is getting through," Roy said.

He said "there are going to be positive adjustments in US leadership style and you already see it in the Bush administration where I think the consequences of unilateralism are much better appreciated within the administration than was the case initially."

There was now "a much stronger impulse within the administration to work through multilateral institutions," Roy said, citing the Bush administration's initiative to return to the United Nations (news - web sites) for a resolution on Iraq, "which it was reluctant to do a short while ago.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1520&ncid=1520&e=10&u=/afp/20031017/pl_afp/us_iraq_philippines_031017153558

interesting article

[Don_G]

1. What Good Will It Do?

This administration and it's Pentagon flakes are more "attuned" to God than sound logic or military tactics.

Hence their theme song: "Nearer My God To Thee-The Titanic Version."

[lindashaw]

2. It's too late. We have already installed the Bush doctrine -- preemptive

stike. Israel has now said that it can preemptively strike, and Russia has stated that it can now preemptively strike, also. Bush has unleashed what the world has spend 200 years trying to prevent. I don't think it can be undone. Tell me I'm wrong.