but he continues to insult the nations that are actually helping us, calling the coalition fraudulent, coerced, and bribed. Is there anything in his past, other than his assertions, that leads anyone to believe he can assemble a coalition? Insulting the people who are helping while pledging to build a coalition seems like a pretty stupid move.

France and Germany have expressed no desire to help us in any way, not that they have much to offer in the first place.

The President should convene a summit meeting of the world’s major powers and Iraq’s neighbors, this week, in New York, where many leaders will attend the U.N. General Assembly. He should insist that they make good on that U.N. resolution. He should offer potential troop contributors specific, but critical roles, in training Iraqi security personnel and securing Iraq’s borders. He should give other countries a stake in Iraq’s future by encouraging them to help develop Iraq’s oil resources and by letting them bid on contracts instead of locking them out of the reconstruction process.

Sounds like he's offering to bribe other nations to come to Iraq in exchange for a share of Iraq's oil resources and reconstruction contracts.