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| | The New American Status Quo - Opinion |
 | | Yet Zakaria, I believe, was nostalgic to fault, eulogizing the relationships America once enjoyed with her allies, the high place America once occupied in the world's eyes, without putting these realities into broader context. |
 | | His desire for the status quo ante bellum relations with the world, like Kerry's, is flimsy nostalgia, not real policy in the post-9/11 age. |
 | | They are largely a confederation of former great powers engaged in an exercise of collective amnesia, willfully forgetting the massive responsibilities that accompany great-power status that they themselves forswore under the Kaiser and Hitler's Germany, Napoleon's France and Stalin's Russia. |
| www.vermontcynic.com /news/2004/10/12/Opinion/The-New.American.Status.Quo-770630.shtml (875 words) |
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