Bush’s U.N. fiasco
Bush’s U.N. fiasco
President’s message: If you don’t want to help us, you’re on the side of the terrorists
By Fred Kaplan
SLATE.COM
Sept. 23 — Has an American president ever delivered such a bafflingly impertinent speech before the General Assembly as the one George W. Bush gave this morning? Here were the world’s foreign ministers and heads of state, anxiously awaiting some sign of an American concession to realism — even the sketchiest outline of a plan to share not just the burden but the power of postwar occupation in Iraq. And Bush gave them nothing, in some ways less than nothing.
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