Certain fools better hope very few foreign leaders think as I do
U.S. May Be Forced to Go Back to U.N. for Iraq MandateBy CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
WASHINGTON, July 18 — The Bush administration, which spurned the United Nations in its drive to depose Saddam Hussein in Iraq, is finding itself forced back into the arms of the international body because other nations are refusing to contribute peacekeeping troops or reconstruction money without United Nations approval.
With the costs of stabilizing Iraq hovering at $4 billion a month and with American troops being killed at a steady rate, administration officials acknowledge that they are rethinking their strategy and may seek a United Nations resolution for help that would placate other nations, like India, France and Germany.
… "It's increasingly clear there was really some underestimation of the number of people who would be required after the regime fell, and the length of time required to stay there," said Paul Saunders, director of the Nixon Center, a nonpartisan research organization whose honorary chairman is Henry A. Kissinger.
Mr. Saunders said there were two reasons for the United States to go back to the United Nations.
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It would be helpful to diffuse responsibility for this massive undertaking, and share any dissatisfaction with others and not be the sole target ourselves," he said. "Externally, it's also helpful in rebuilding some of the relationships that were strained in the dispute over going in."
I would like to see a UN mandate and international assistance so that some of the troops can get home to their families. However, I'm not sure it isn't in the national interest of a great number of nations to letthe USofA go it entirely alone. It's pretty obvious it will break the aura of invincibility the neo-conmen have been striving for. The United States of America will be forced to abandon raw force as the preferred method of influencing other nations and return to the method preferred by those to be influenced—bribery. Also, who
really wants to walk up and stand n front of the bulls-eye as Saunders admits would happen?
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