*rolls eyes* Wasn't that phrase used about the un before the war in Iraq?
You lay yer markers down for future moves.
Similar:
"All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?"
President Bush to UN General Assembly Sept 2002