A vague pitch [at the UN] leaves mostly puzzlement
WaPo: Glenn Kessler: ‘Many nations might have been willing to support a war if the administration had been willing to give U.N. weapons inspections a few more weeks, but the administration refused to alter its military timetable.’ [→ READ ]
In two speeches that bracketed the president’s address, Annan and French President Jacques Chirac suggested that it is the administration’s doctrine of “preemption” — the promise to strike against emerging threats — that threatens to spread chaos across the globe. Both men bluntly said that the Bush administration is undermining the collective security arrangements that have governed the world since World War II.
Indeed, the Bush Doctrine of “preemption” (referenced here) is like a large leaky vial of smallpox as far as international chaos is concerned.
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