At 06:32 AM 11/9/2002 -0600 Robert Seeberger wrote:
>http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=350321
>
>Backing the determination of Washington and London to overturn more than a
>decade of defiance by Saddam Hussein, the UN Security Council voted
>unanimously yesterday for a stiffly worded resolution that gives Iraq a
>"final opportunity" to rid itself of weapons of mass destruction or face
>certain war.
You know, just a couple weeks ago, I docked the score of one of my students
in a Model United Nations competition for representing Syria and voting in
favor of a tough resolution on Iraq. I simply would never have imagined
that Syria would ever have been able to be brought on board on this.
Anyhow, after Bush's success in diplomacy in the aftermath of September
11th, his success in getting Russian acquiescene for the cancelling of the
ABM Treaty and the expansion of NATO, and now building a unanimous
coalition in the Security Council against Iraq, I think that it is time to
call Bush a master diplomat.
The most interesting feature of all this, however, is that just as with the
previous three issues above, Bush's diplomatic success is a direct result
of making the outcome appear to be inevitable, and thus forcing the
international community to either work with us to color the exact character
of the inevitable result, or else risk irrelevancy. Its been a brilliant
strategy so far - and one for which it looks more and more like Bush will
be well-remembered by history for.
JDG
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