1.  American action in Afghanistan also risks igniting an upheaval in Pakistan.

2.  An internal State Department report provides an unusually frank assessment of why American action has sometimes been slow or ineffective.

3.  And there are enough bloody sword fights and nasty stabbings to strike envy into the heart of any American action flick.

4.  As he read the list out loud, he reacted with a mixture of amusement and contempt to each of the various American actions.

5.  At times, American actions may promote public goods and serve more widely accepted ends.

6.  Baugh sought to win sympathy for his client by charging that American military actions and economic sanctions against Iraq had caused the deaths of innocent children there.

7.  A stable world order must be built on a broad international consensus, not American military action alone.

8.  But American officials said later that he meant that unilateral American action is not being considered, and that military planning would be left to NATO.

9.  But earlier on Thursday in London, British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind gave full support for the American actions to contain Saddam.

10.  But if Baghdad is back to its familiar game of thwarting the search for biological and chemical weapons and banned missiles, American military action may become unavoidable.