| We have Bush putting the UN center stage in all of his responses.
Let's remember that the object of this exercise is not to piss people off needlessly, it's to produce regime change in Iraq and rid the world of Hussein's arsenal of WMD's. There are a bunch of people around the world who have a lot of emotion tied up in the UN, and since it wasn't going to impact our schedule anyway, why not let them put a fig leaf over their impotence and allow them to dance a bit on the stage? At no point has Bush suggested that the UN has any sort of veto over what we are going to do, or that they can dictate the timing of it. He is permitting them to Act Important while the Pentagon lines up the ducks. I see nothing wrong with that.
There are likely to be more of these "spectacular" attacks from al Qa'eda before this is all over, and the last thing we need is pogroms in the streets following them. I join Colin Powell in wishing that Falwell et. al. would shut up about this. I do not consider those guys Conservative Heroes, I consider them the white versions of Jesse Jackson; hustlers who wear a Rolex on their TV show and get caught in bed with... well, you know as well as I do. How anybody can look up to those guys is a mystery to me. |
I watched Bush at the UN. Did you? He basically told them that they could either vote to enforce their own resolutions, or they could stand aside while we went ahead without them.