An editorial in last Thursday’s (November 13, 2003) New York Times offered President Bush some advice: “Transfer political authority to a newly created United Nations administration.” This, argued the Times, would be a “much better way to manage the process” of transferring governing authority to Iraqi officials; but it warned that “a rushed American withdrawal without an orderly handoff to the UN would leave Iraq open to just the kind of mixture of misgovernment and terrorism that the White House waged this war to prevent.” For many, the Times' prescription makes sense. Not only does it appeal to the visceral isolationism (that...