71.   In short, Washington wants strong economies run by leaders who will shrink their military power and act weakly beyond their borders.

72.   In the Muslim north, where illiteracy is widespread but where military power has long rested, the Lagos-based press is held in deep suspicion.

73.   In some ways that transition seemed natural in a post-Cold War world driven as much by the rapid movement of capital as by the traditional balance of military power.

74.   In the second approach, we are first among equals in the world, leading by example and moral leadership as much as by military power and economic strength.

75.   India, which is much the stronger military power, says it would not be the first to use nuclear weapons.

76.   Instead of maximizing their military power, they have forsworn the use of ground troops, except to uphold a peace agreement that may never come into being.

77.   Instead, the hard realities of military power prevailed.

78.   Israel, which is the strongest military power in the region and is eager to join, has not been asked.

79.   Israel has peace treaties with two Arab neighbors and overwhelming military power.

80.   Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has spelled out a strategy of answering Palestinian attacks with increasingly harsh levels of military power.