LONDON -- There are a few countries that line up with the United States in opposing the creation of an international criminal court -- Cuba, China, Iraq, and Libya -- but no other respectable, democratic countries oppose it.
There are a few fossil fuel-exporting countries that openly or tacitly back the Bush administration's rejection of the Kyoto treaty on global warming, but every other major industrial country is going to ratify it (apart from Canada, which dares not get ahead of the U.S.).
And there is not one other country on the planet that really likes the White House's plan to build missile defenses and tear up the ABM treaty. The U.S. has not been so isolated from its friends on key international issues since the beginning of the Cold War -- not even during the Vietnam War.
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