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Bush could make the failure of the UN the immediate issue, and leverage the situation to replace it.

What a delightful idea. I don't know how likely this is, but if Pres. Bush is looking for a bold step that would take us in the right direction, one that would at the same time strengthen our international position, explain yet another delay in the war, and bolster the support of his conservative base, that would do it.

Bush has already promised, if the UN does not act, he will lead a coalition to disarm Saddam Hussein. The great thing about Bush is, if you listen very carefuly to what he says, he always gives people a heads up as to what's going down. Bush is going to make good on that promise. Note, BTW, that he never committed to attack Iraq in a matter of weeks -- he simply said that the UN must act in a matter of weeks. So, now we find out what "leading a coalition" implies. And, my prediction is, it's going to imply the complete humiliation of the UN -- no more "sanction of the victim," to use Ayn Rand's term -- followed by the careful, systematic assembly of a new world body that will do the job the UN was supposed do. We're going to put together a by-invitation-only, self-perpetuating fraternity of freedom-oriented nations. The "fraternity" aspect is a wonderful piece of poetic justice, given the scorn heaped on Dubya for his "frat boy" mentality. Francois de Villepin, or WTF that frog pillowbiter's name is, will have the smile wiped of his silly, smug face when he finds himself out in the cold with a bunch of freaks and whack-jobs -- a veritable "Trenchcoat Mafia" of outcast, loser nations. Gerhard Schroeder will have to take up a new occupation, like searching for his approval ratings with a microscope. Kofi Annan, who bears more responsibility for 9-11 than any human being outside Iraq, will have to get used to paying his parking tickets like a normal human being. This humiliation is very necessary. All of this will be enormously popular with the American people. All of this was foreshadowed in the administration's Arafat strategy. Bush has given ample warning to all the offending parties. The verdict of history will be decisively in favor of Bush's New World Order, and the likes of Annan, Schroeder, de Villiepan, Chirac, etc., will be remembered in the same breath as Chamberlain, Quisling, Lord Haw-Haw, Benedict Arnold, Kurt Waldheim, and Marshal Petain.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm coming and I think I'll have to go change my underwear.