Posted on 05/09/03
Hide those unseemly snickers, gentlemen
Opponents of the U.S.-led war and occupation in Iraq could hardly contain their snickers when the administration of President George W. Bush asked this week for more United Nations help in securing and rebuilding the country. Britain's antiwar Guardian called it a "humiliating diplomatic climbdown." The Financial Times said the U.S. was going "meekly, co-operatively, multilaterally" to the UN, "the institution it derided and mocked only a few months ago." The Toronto Star said the request showed the "folly of the U.S. going it alone without UN legitimacy."
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