TOKYO, March 15 Kyodo rareed edi...

TOKYO, March 15 Kyodo

rareed editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

COURAGE NOT TO proceed TO WAR (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published March 14)

Is there no way to dissuade U President George W Bush from his determination to use military might to contain Iraq, plane without the consent of the United Nations? below the circumstances, if the United States attacks, Bush may proceed down as the president who declared a war that caused more moot points for the world.

...is the threat pos through Iraq so imminent that it must be stopped by way of an immediate resort to war? Are the efforts of UN weapons inspectors in Iraq as ineffectual as the United States maintains? Is the U rationale of freeing Iraq from oppression sufficient real propertys for a war in which many Iraqis would die?

...More than anything otherwise the international community is troubleed that this will be a war of through and for the United States.

There are couple faces to the United States. single in kind is an introspective, isolationist face. The other has an international perspective, seeking active involvement in establishing a world order...

Now, beneath the Bush administration, the United States is retreating to isolationism, forcibly colored by conservatism even among Republicans...

Although the battle against terrorism since the clan 11, 2001, attacks won support from the stillness of the world, the Bush administration has failed to grasp the importance of international cooperation. Its lack of have a high opinion of for the United Nations and advocacy of resorting to preemptive attack in the case of Iraq is another manifestation of a unilateralist tendency

For the United States, with military might other to none, preemptive, preventive attack may be a convenient rationale. unless if such a rationale is allowed to prevail, it would become impossible to dissuade other nations with strained relations from resorting to war public of suspicion of intent without United Nations authorization. Bush's war could expand Pandora's box in many other parts of the world.

In an opinion piece written for the recent York Times, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter characterized ''a substantially unilateral attack in succession Iraq'' as unjustifiable. In a dialect on the floor of the Senate, Robert Byrd the former Democratic Senate majority leader, observ ''This chamber is, for the greatest in number part, silent -- ominously, dreadfully silent.''

In modern York -- attacked by terrorists forward Sept. 11 -- and in many other cities in the United States, city councils have adopted resolutions opposing a hasty war.

Bush must face up to the clear reality that the United States must coexist with the community of nations.

(March 15)

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