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Over at Salon, in a generally useful piece entitled "War games about Han Blix's report," Eric Boehlert writes:
Blix is scheduled to return to the U.N. in mid-February to deliver another update, but by then it will probably be even more obvious that war is imminent, with the U.S. moving toward an invasion in spite of resistance from France, Germany and Russia, among others.
In a series of recent interviews, experts in global diplomacy worried that such an approach by the Bush administration could do damage to the U.N. and to U.S. global credibility, with effects that may felt long after the battles in Iraq have ended.
Waging a war without U.N. authorization "would do real damage to the United Nations," says Mitchell Reiss, dean of international relations at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
Maybe, but my argument -which I have articulated here and here- is that U.N. support for this operation will discredit the U.N. as it will make it appear that if the Security Council only enforces its resolutions whent he U.S. tells it to. posted by micah holmquist at 1/28/2003 07:01:00 PM
