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Communism collapses, America declines. For more than a year, that coupling has expressed the conventional wisdom: a new world is emerging, a post-cold war era driven as never before by economic competition, an order in which other nations, new superpowers like Germany and Japan, will challenge U.S. primacy. At best, the argument runs, an exhausted U.S., nearly bankrupt after 40 years of containing Soviet expansionism, will have to share global leadership in the 21st century...
Beyond the President's personal political fortunes, the present mess may spawn some truly significant legacies. The post-cold war U.N., ripe for realizing its lofty aims -- the maintenance of peace and respect for international law -- has passed an important test, and could become the useful forum for conflict resolution it was intended to be. In the Arab world, new alliances will probably emerge. Whether they are pro- or anti-Western, less or more hostile toward Israel, they will surely be different. Of greatest moment -- at least to the U.S. -- is the fact that Bush may have stumbled...
...Washington would like to see NATO adopt got an unrehearsed trial run, with the U.S. relying heavily on Turkey to complete the economic asphyxiation of Iraq, its southeastern neighbor. "The real significance of this crisis," said a senior Bush Administration official, "is that it is going to define the post-cold war world...
...special case because the stakes -- oil -- are so high and because Saddam has played such a textbook villain. No such unanimity could be expected if, for example, India invaded Pakistan, Senegal made a move on Gambia, or Bolivia rumbled into Paraguay. In effect, this first test of the post-cold war security structure is a relatively simple one. But that is all the more reason why the forces lined up so uniformly against Saddam must not be allowed to fail...
...many other defiant pop stars is the music that backs it up. At first listen, O-Positive sounds like an REM clone--a fact which Herlihy attributes to the similarity between his voice and the voice of REM's lead singer. But O-Positive is more than just another post-pop band with whiny and slightly off-key lead vocals...