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"Maybe George W. Bush Has Saved the UN From Itself," mused the headline to George Melloan's November 12th Wall Street Journal column. While the Left assailed Mr. Bush's "unilateralism," and his Republican defenders hailed him for supposedly defying the world body, the president was actually working to save "the dream of a multilateral organization that would keep the peace throughout the world," according to Melloan.
The lesson of Mr. Bush's policy toward Iraq, Melloan asserted, is that the UN cannot carry out its role as a global "peacekeeper" without "vigorous U.S. leadership. And more importantly, [it cannot] happen unless the U.S. is willing to ...