2dogs
March 13, 2003, 10:33 AM
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/70594.htm
(excerpt)
Liberals, who call conservative hostility to the U.N. "radical," disregard the recklessness, and the incoherence, of the U.N.'s new presumption. The U.N., a collection of regimes of less than uniform legitimacy, has anointed itself the sole arbiter of what are legitimate military actions.
And it has claimed a duty to leash the only nation that has the power to enforce its resolutions. How long will that nation's public be willing to pay one-quarter of the U.N.'s bills?
The war will be followed by a presidential election in which all candidates must answer this: "Do you believe that any use of U.S. military power lacks legitimacy unless approved by France, Russia and China?"
The Republican candidate has already answered.
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Pretty well sums that up, eh?
(excerpt)
Liberals, who call conservative hostility to the U.N. "radical," disregard the recklessness, and the incoherence, of the U.N.'s new presumption. The U.N., a collection of regimes of less than uniform legitimacy, has anointed itself the sole arbiter of what are legitimate military actions.
And it has claimed a duty to leash the only nation that has the power to enforce its resolutions. How long will that nation's public be willing to pay one-quarter of the U.N.'s bills?
The war will be followed by a presidential election in which all candidates must answer this: "Do you believe that any use of U.S. military power lacks legitimacy unless approved by France, Russia and China?"
The Republican candidate has already answered.
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Pretty well sums that up, eh?