A new credo for the hyperpower

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Simon Tisdall
Thursday August 4, 2005
The Guardian

To improve its influence and image in the world, the US should refrain from building new nuclear weapons, scrap the Bush doctrine of preventive war and regime change, break its climate-changing oil habit, and recommit to international rule-making organisations such as the UN.

The musings of a leftwing think-tank? A liberal pipedream? Not a bit of it. These proposals come from Richard Haass, a leading light in the US foreign policy establishment and former senior official in the Clinton and Bush administrations.

As strategists ponder America's future direction amid continuing international divisions over Iraq, the "war on terror", Kyoto, trade and a host of other issues, Mr Haass' new "integration doctrine" is being taken seriously. Henry Kissinger, hardly a radical, is a fan.

Disturbingly for America's policy potentates, Mr Urquhart also wonders whether a "rapidly changing world (will) be willing to embrace US leadership as readily as it has done in the past". Even after all Mr Bush has done, the possibility of rejection hardly seems to have occurred to them.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1542198,00.html

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1. the SCO will probably displace the US anyway

So it doesn't really matter what Bushler tries to do, except wrt. how hard it makes life for those in the US.

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2. Yeah, yeah, NOW they want to stop the haemorrhage. nt