France and America, A Shared History: "Last week, even the Financial Times of London - pro-American, pro-business, conservative to the bone - threw up its hands in despair at Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice. This is, said the lead editorial, a team whose 'instinctive and ideological tendency' from the start has been 'to regard international consultation and cooperation as a burdensome bore or intolerable constraint.' Don't they know, the paper asked, that 'alone the U.S. is far more vulnerable than it likes to believe, while in concert with free nations, it is far more powerful than even it can imagine.' "
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