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...order did not distinguish itself in the run-up to Iraq. The French preened for the pacifist European street. Hans Blix's inspection regime wasn't nearly as muscular as it needed to be. NATO fiddled; the U.N. failed. Reality dictates that changes will come. At the very least, American forces - an inexact but not insignificant barometer of American interests - will be drawn down in Western Europe and moved east to friendlier (and less expensive) billets like Hungary. But a more important transition is imminent as Asia supplants Europe as the focus of American foreign policy. This may well lead...
...Charles de Gaulle who first charted this course. He tried to break away from the U.S. by, for example, ordering American troops out of France and withdrawing from the military structure of NATO. But during the cold war this was not realistic. The Soviet threat loomed. Today, with the Warsaw Pact dead, France can safely make its reach for grandeur...
Powell makes U.S. case for war to U.N. Security Council. NATO reaches deadlock between U.S. and France, Germany and Belgium over whether to protect Turkey in case of an Iraqi attack. Inspectors find missiles made illegal under the Gulf War ceasefire, which Saddam agrees to destroy. Blix reports that Iraq is largely cooperating with inspections. France, Germany and Russia issue step-by-step plan for disarmament as an alternative to American war plans. Millions demonstrate around the world from Feb. 14-15 against a possible U.S. attack on Iraq...
...doff our hats to the most powerful man in the West: Saddam Hussein. Any war against him is still at least a few weeks off, yet it has already claimed three prominent victims: Europe, NATO and the U.S.-German relationship...
Franco-German revenge came swiftly. When the U.S. asked NATO to start planning for the defense of Turkey in case of an Iraqi attack, Berlin and Paris retaliated with a veto. Ever since, the alliance has been trying to repair the damage. Yet whatever the murky compromise may be, the message was deadly. The alliance is now ad hoc and a la carte. Out goes the "All for one, and one for all" rule at the very heart of NATO. The new motto is "Some for one, some of the time." History's longest-lived alliance deserves a grander death...