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"In September 2002," writes UN Undersecretary-General for Communications Shashi Tharoor in the September/October Foreign Affairs, "a radical new document declared that 'no nation can build a safer, better world alone.' These words came not from some utopian internationalist or ivory-tower academic, but from the new National Security Strategy [NSS] of the United States. For all its underpinnings in realpolitik, the strategy committed the United States to multilateralism."
This is to say that the Bush administration's NSS committed the U.S.--in principle--to a UN-administered world. "The United Nations is the preeminent institution of multilateralism," comments Tharoor. "The UN helps establish the norms that many countries--including the United States--would like everyone to live by.... The UN, for all its imperfections--real and perceived--reflects this American preference ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The globalist Bush administration.(Insider Report)