It began as a principled battle of civilization against the forces of barbarism. Is it now turning into the U.S. vs. the rest of the world? That extraordinary, almost suspended-in-time quality of the immediate post-September 11 world seems so far away now: The pro-American candlelight vigils in Tehran. The French flags flying at half-mast along the Seine in Paris. Chinese President Jiang Zemin telling George W. Bush that his nation was on the side of the American people. "If ever there was an exercise in squandering instinctive support, this has been it," says former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans, now president of Brussels-based International Crisis Group, a private multinational organization working on conflict prevention.
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