Word: globocop
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...solid year or more, France and Germany have taken great delight in denouncing the selfish "unilateralism" of the United States - "Dirty Harry" and "Globocop" rolled into one. But who is a unilateralist now? Last week the Continent's two biggest fish demonstrated how well they, too, can play a self-centered game - and proved that power is a temptation for all nations, not just the U.S. What the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change and the International Criminal Court are to America (the U.S. says no to both), the E.U. Stability and Growth Pact is to France and Germany. The pact...
...give in to the U.S. on this one, they will just ask for more.'' Shen Rengan, deputy director of the National Copyright Administration, complains that ``there are a bunch of people in the U.S. who are petrified by the prospect of China becoming strong . . . The U.S. can't play globocop in China...
International terrorism is on the rise today, and the bipolar balance of terror has degenerated into a motley bunch of renegade regimes, all pounding on the door of the nuclear club. Just as Americans are growing uncomfortable with our new role as de facto globocop, our share of the burden grows larger. Our allies are passing the buck: Boutros-Ghali has reported that France, Italy, Belgium, Jordan, and Tunisia are considering pulling out of Somalia before...
...Arabian officials in the presence of American "consultants" showed the U.S. accusations to be without substance, prompting Beijing to demand a formal U.S. apology and compensation for the freighter's interrupted voyage. Afterward, the Chinese press went on a name-calling binge, deriding the U.S. as a self- styled globocop trampling on others' sovereignty. The IOC's decision was seen as a further example of Western anti-China bias...
There is a lesson for the U.S. too: no globocop, however powerful, can step in to wipe out the hatreds that have made Bosnia, Somalia, Liberia, Kashmir, the Caucasus run with blood. U.S. power can be brought to bear successfully in conflicts like the Gulf War that are not principally about hate but about aggression, power, territorial acquisition -- the old game of nation states. The U.S. can cajole and encourage accommodation in lots of political, diplomatic, even military ways, but it cannot fundamentally change the minds of people determined to make their hatred for each other the reason for living...