Yet it is presumably to counter America's insatiable appetite for using its military that the idea has arisen that America should submit to plans to ``collegialize'' its power. The idea is that any use, even after successive acts of war against America, requires the permission of France, Russia and China, which have not sought U.N. blessings for their respective military interventions to discipline the Ivory Coast, to grind the Chechens into submission and to suffocate Tibet.