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Apropos Mani Shankar Aiyar’s ‘German squawk, American hawk’ (IE, October 1), I read it and found it quite interesting...

Apropos Mani Shankar Aiyar’s ‘German squawk, American hawk’ (IE, October 1), I read it and found it quite interesting, if misguided.

President Bush is going to get his war with Iraq or Saddam Hussein is going to back down and probably fall. Good riddance. Germany — and the rest of Europe — is more upset that it cannot do united what the United States can do alone.

The US has been forced by the rest of the world’s tolerance for violence and hatred to put an end to it. Now everyone is worried. Tough!

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Al Queda, the endless Middle East warfare, Chinese belligerence, the never ending India-Pakistan disputes, the African disasters and a host of other social and political ills that have been ignored are coming back to bite the world. The United States is going to do something about it, starting with Iraq. After that, maybe the nearly useless United Nations will start forcing Third World presidents for life and nationalist dictators into obeying human rights accords. Then the world might become a place ruled by law, instead of by military force.

Luckily, that force right now is controlled by the United States.

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