Time to Unite

By David Ignatius
Friday, August 22, 2003; Page A21

Sometimes tragedy forces people to see things in a changed light. Perhaps Tuesday's truck bombing at United Nations headquarters in Baghdad will have that galvanizing effect -- on the Bush administration, on its critics in countries such as France and Germany and most of all on the Iraqi people.

Key Quote:

"The second lesson is that the Bush administration's Iraq policy is in trouble and needs some changes. Above all, it needs a broader and more active coalition of international support and the legitimacy that would provide."

"To gain that internationalization, the administration will have to make concessions that, until Tuesday, it had rejected."