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Article: Go-it-alone conquest has consequences.(President Bush calls for international cooperation to stabilize Iraq)(Editorial)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- October 3, 2003
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President Bush and his neoconservative advisers are learning the hard way that a nation cannot exist solely on the adrenalin rush of war and conquest.
There are, as the president is so fond of pointing out for others, "consequences" to actions taken by the United States. The administration may be learning, as we have said previously on this page, that even though we are unquestionably the world's lone superpower, there are real limits to what that power can accomplish and sustain if substantial agreement does not exist amid the international community.
Some argue that Bush's recent speech at the United Nations was aimed not so much at the international ...