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How about the lack of support from the United Nations to invade Iraq in the first place?
Remember when nearly every nation in the world wanted a mere few weeks more of inspections by UN personnel in an effort to find the dreaded weapons of mass destruction? It seemed reasonable at the time. No nobody wanted to rush into a war except for George W. Bush. He bellowed about the UN becoming irrelevant, his lackeys hinted at withholding funding from the UN, his secretary of defense publicly mocked and ridiculed European nations for not getting on the war bandwagon and he figuratively got in the face of nearly every nation on the planet. By doing so he raised the hackles of nearly every nation and he painted himself into a corner in which nations were loathe to support the Bush "war now" position except for the few we could bribe with American greenbacks. (Hey, what's a few more billion here and there?) Was this nearly unilateral war undertaking George's fault? Of course not. It was the fault of France. For wanting a few weeks of inspections France was ridiculed in the right wing press and Tom DeLay made the House menu change French Fries to American Fries.
There is a law of physics which says for every action there must be a reaction. George's actions belittling the United Nations are now beginning to show consequences. The administration doesn't want to be in Iraq for the 5-10 years it is estimated will be needed to mold a new nation. It doesn't want to be there not because of the one billion dollars a week it is costing us to be in Iraq (what's a few billion here and there?) or because of the one or two American soldiers being killed there each day, but because the Bush re-election numbers are plummeting.
To alleviate the downward spiral of election numbers the administration now wants the UN to replace some of our troops over there. Let's see, first the UN is irrelevant as peacekeepers or fighting forces when they don't agree with you but all of a sudden are a proper vehicle for peacekeeping when Americans are being pinged like targets at a carnival. Sure, after all, French soldiers die better than American soldiers don't they?
If the United Nations should ever get around to considering a resolution by the United States authorizing UN troops in Iraq replacing American troops don't be surprised if the resolution takes a long time to act upon.
Maybe it will conveniently get lost for awhile and the UN Secretary General will send a note to George saying his dog ate the resolution.
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