into it. Saddam Hussein made a naked grab for land, oil, and power. He was slapped down by equally naked force deployed by George Bush. This state of affairs has led some self proclaimed realists to announce that the "new world order" would be the U.S. as global policeman. According to neoconservative commentator Charles Krauthammer,
Our best hope for safety ... is in American strength
and will the strength and will to lead a unipolar
world, unashamedly laying down the rules of world
order and being prepared to enforce them.1
Krauthammer and his fellow neoconservatives, formerly zealous Cold Warriors, were quick to exact intellectual re
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