U.S. finds tables turned at U.N. Nations not eager to pick up Iraq costs or pledge troops ANALYSIS By Michael Moran MSNBC UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 27 — Having launched the Iraq War in defiance of the United Nations Security Council and repeatedly vowed to “go it alone,†the Bush administration finds itself back at U.N. headquarters seeking help in stemming the costs, both in blood and dollars, of occupying Saddam Hussein’s former realm. OVER THE PAST week, efforts by senior American diplomats — including a personal visit to U.N. headquarters last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell — failed to win new pledges of money or troops from any of the world’s major powers. With the United States determined to control both the military occupation and the distribution of reconstruction contracts, many large nations are treating Washington to a taste of its own hardball tactics. “We always knew there would be a day of reckoning on this, that the U.N. would wind up cleaning up the mess,†says a diplomat from a smaller Security Council country. “As you say it, it goes around, it comes around.â€More
What goes around, comes around