He talks of building a nation-state and taking Ukraine into NATO and the European Union.

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While Americans remain individualistic citizens of a nation-state at the height of its power, Europeans are absorbed in an unprecedented enterprise of union-building.

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Realpoliticians will declare it folly, a commitment to "nation-building" beyond our resources or will, a goal at cross- purposes with Secretary of State Colin Powell's monomaniacal focus on securing international "support" for our war effort even from terrorist-sponsoring states.

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There were reports of a bombing Monday inside the Syrian state-run TV building in Damascus, the latest in a series of attacks to rock the nation's capital city as Syrian rebels and government forces battle for control of the country.

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