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Friday, July 20, 2007 12:00 AM

Moral hazard

The Bush administration invites the U.N. to dive into the quagmire.

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  • Friday, July 20, 2007 07:51 AM

    The UN Can't Help

    No one can. No one can get us out of this quagmire. We dug our own grave, and now we have to lie in it. Not pleasant, but reality.

    Alas, some of the responses to this article have been amazingly dumb. If you don't have the attention span to read more than 2 paragraphs, you should probably not be too proud to admit that.

    Realname - the idea that the UN is dominated by Arab states is so dumb it can't be put into words.

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