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" It is a telling comment upon the dented , eroded moral authority of the world 's sole Superpower that it approached some 90 countries the world over for military assistance in Iraq , but managed to persuade only 19 of them to send troops . In vain her sisters implored , the duenna scolded , and the renegado blasphemed beneath the balcony ; the gentle little Moorish maid stood doubting and wavering on the verge of elopement , tempted by the sweetness of the sin , but terrified at its perils . Afterward , former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger praised the military action but criticized overall US policy in the Gulf as " inept . The Conference was also much more informal than those provided at present under the Judicial Code , but covered much the same ground . Demoustier , who was injured during the incident but managed to escape , was driving one of the vehicles . " Republicanism , they assert , did not deny the existence of natural rights but subordinated them to the belief that the maintenance of a free republic required a strong sense of communal responsibility and the cultivation of self-denying virtue among its leaders . In a review in his journal , the Athanaeum , Schlegel referred to the stimulating power of the Speeches but criticized its author for being exoteric and for not grasping how the human situation occurs through the separation and reunion of the divine from and with itself .