[Page: E1355]    in the House of Representatives     At the end
of the Cold War, the U.S. towered over the world, the sole
surviving superpower, the source of inspiration for a global
democratic revolution that had destroyed tyrannies ranging from
Spain and Portugal in the '70s, to virtually all of Latin
America and then Central and Eastern Europe in the '80s
culminating in the fall of the Soviet Empire itself. Washington
became the Mecca of a new democratic faith, and the prophets and
followers of democracy, from Havel and Walesa to Pope John Paul
II and Nelson Mandela, came in a sort of democratic hajj to pay
reverent tribute. They all went to Congress and gave thanks to
America for having made it all possible, and continued to the
White House to pay their respects.  Any other nation in such a
position would have extended its dominion over others, and many
nations in the rest of the world fully expected us to do just
that. They were stunned to learn that America was not interested
in greater dominion. Indee