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Joshua Muravchik, "We Are Better Off Without that U.N. Resolution," AEI On The Issues, March 21, 2003 (aei.org)

Writing two days after international coalition forces began their campaign to liberate Iraq, AEI scholar Joshua Muravchik contends that the United States "dodged a bullet" by not seeking U.N. Security Council authorization for the war. Muravchik points out that the main reason why nations like France and Russia often exalt the Security Council's importance is that they have so little power (military or otherwise) relative to the United States.

Muravchik observes that the requirement for a Security Council mandate was never established in international law. During the Cold War, NATO, for example, functioned on the assumption that the U.S. and other Western nations would act to repulse a Soviet advance into Europe without the approval ...

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