by Jim Lobe

Asia Times

06/26/04

The Bush administration has gotten America into its worst foreign-policy debacle since the Vietnam War, the kind of crisis that creates a moment when you realize you can't continue this way,' said John Ikenberry, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. 'We are as close to an open rebellion against American leadership in the world as we've seen since after World War II,' he told IPS. 'The costs of a unilateral, hardline, go-it-alone
approach are much greater than those who championed that style have anticipated.' Indeed, the tilt to the realists has been driven by the convergence of Washington's steadily growing diplomatic isolation and its patent failure to cope by itself, or with its dwindling number of allies, with the situation in Iraq...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp