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The UN's victory in Iraq.(Insider Report)
"The war in Iraq has become an epic of unanticipated (and some anticipated) consequences, and one of the most unanticipated of all is certainly the emergence of the United Nations as the new [molder] of Iraq's political future," commented the New Republic in a May 10 editorial entitled "The UN's Revenge." "How did the Bush administration, which was so boastful about its disdain for the ideas and the instruments of the United Nations, end up on Kofi Annan's doorstep in a posture of supplication?"
Noting that what the Bush administration "started alone we cannot finish alone," the liberal journal observed: "[T]he United Nations is now contributing plans without contributing troops; a brilliant outcome."
Contrary to the New Republic's assessment, the outcome they describe was anticipated, in detail, in these pages even prior to the outbreak of the Iraq war in March 2003. And as our nation becomes more deeply mired in the Mesopotamian morass, the Bush administration's reliance on the UN is becoming ever more overt.
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Source: HighBeam Research, The UN's victory in Iraq.(Insider Report)