Iraq is beginning to sound like a rerun of the Vietnam War, and not just because presidential critics again are crying out that the United States has fallen into a quagmire.

The invasion of Iraq marked the energetic exercise of U.S. power not simply to protect the status quo of American global preeminence but to extend the current liberal international order.

Events in Yugoslavia have reinforced the People's Republic of China'sdetermination to exercise greater leadership against U.S. "hegemony."

The conservatism of the future must be a social as well as an economic conservatism, but after the heroism and patriotism of 9/11 it must also be an optimistic conservatism.

"I respect and admire the French, who have been a far greater nation than we shall ever be, that is, if greatness means anything loftier than money and bombs."--Thomas Fleming, Hard Right, March 13, 2003

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