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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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27 Feb 2004 02:44:50 PM |
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OT: In Iraq, It's Time for Some Smarts |
In Iraq, It's Time for Some Smarts
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4339873/
The lesson here is not that the U.N. is always right or competent. It
isn't. The lesson is that America needs to exercise power shrewdly
By Fareed Zakaria
Newsweek
March 1 issue - As the war in Iraq was coming to a close, many
people—from Tony Blair to Joseph Biden (and even this writer)—urged
Washington to give the United Nations a central role in postwar
politics. This had been a well-worked formula for at least a decade:
in Kosovo, East Timor and most recently in Afghanistan, where it
produced a legitimate government and a constitutional process with
remarkably little conflict. But the Bush administration was adamantly
opposed—even though sidelining the U.N. would mean fewer troops and
less money from other countries. "We fought the war," administration
officials explained to me at the time, "and besides, the U.N. is not
competent to handle a complex undertaking like Iraq." Six months
later, with Washington facing a political train wreck in Iraq, whom
did it call? The United Nations.
Fareed Zakaria
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