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One measure of America's importance is the frequency with which countries do outrageous things when they think Americans aren't watching. Saddam Hussein used to do his worst when official Washington was on vacation ? his offensive into Iraqi Kurdistan during the final days of August 1996, for example. North Korea may have provoked a crisis now because it sensed the Bush administration was distracted by Iraq.

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