Paul Z. writes: >Consider the possibility that the U.S. is 'playing' with the U.N. to finally show what is 'wrong' with working through the U.N. and thus to be able to disentangle itself from the U.N. for all future actions it desires. The extreme right here hates the U.N. If so, the Bush administration, following its 'complete' exposure of the U.N., would need to launch a full-scale attack and be done with the U.N. <
also, if the U.N. "caves" to the U.S. and goes along with the Iraq attack, any integrity the U.N. had left is gone.
(Tariq Ali recently had a good column on this in the GUARDIAN.)
Jim Devine
