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To: Alighieri who wrote (235244)	6/1/2005 1:46:35 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573514

True, the U.S. isn't doing much at the moment to improve the U.N., but neither is the rest of the world. The Europeans only want to talk, talk, talk, but never back up their demands on countries like N.K. and Iran with punitive action. The Russians and China are only interested in the U.N. insofar as it can improve their influence and economic position. So there's plenty of blame to go around for the U.N.'s ineffectiveness. The part that Bush got right is that if you really want to get something done, you have to go around the U.N., very much like Clinton did, instead of work through it. Bush could have used NATO instead, but he decided to thumb his noses at our NATO allies with the consequence that we are shouldering all of the costs.