Mocked and reviled by Americans, the world body has been quietly getting it right on Iraq again and again. November 2, 2004 – I want to cast my vote in favor of the United Nations. Some Americans like to talk as if the U.N. exists merely for the convenience of the Third World, forgetting that it was the United States that fought to create an inclusive international forum to help restrain mankind's new ability to destroy itself. With the radioactive dust of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still in the air, it was shock over our own human barbarism that led this...