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  • A Resolution!--The U.N. is "seized of the matter." Hallelujah.

    10/20/2003 5:53:22 AM PDT · by SJackson · 102+ views
    Wall St Journal ^ | 10-20-03 | ELIOT COHEN
    <p>As a matter of civic education, everyone should have to read a Security Council resolution. Take number 1511 on Iraq, and begin with the obligatory last sentence "DECIDES to remain seized of the matter." The line is both arresting and baffling, and conjures an image of scores of goggle-eyed diplomats caught in a cataleptic fit as a result of wrestling with a knotty foreign policy problem. And it means nothing. Could one imagine the Council declaring that it "DECIDES this is the last time it will debate this tiresome issue"? Very few problems in international relations disappear, and neither, presumably, will the Council and its deliberations.</p>
  • "What's the point of the new U.N. resolution?"

    10/17/2003 8:59:31 AM PDT · by KantianBurke · 6 replies · 183+ views
    National Review ^ | 10/17/03 | John Cullinan
    Power without responsibility. By John F. Cullinan What's the point? What, if any, are the possible benefits of Thursday's U.N. Security Council Resolution 1511 as compared with its certain costs? How exactly are U.S. interests — as well as those of ordinary Iraqis — served by a whole series of substantial, last-minute concessions satisfactory to Russia, France, Germany, China, Syria, and the U.N. bureaucracy itself, all determined opponents of the liberation of Iraq? Resolution 1511 offers at best superfluous Security Council blessing for Coalition forces in Iraq in exchange for accepting potentially troublesome deadlines and an almost certainly disruptive U.N....