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Yesterday, President Bush made the case for UN action against Saddam Hussein, and it sounds like a good one. There is a risk in it, though, that frightens me.
Bush made a great deal of the the UN's authority. If we insist Saddam recongnize its authority, don't we thereby legitimize it? I don't want to recognize the power of the International Criminal Court to try, say, an American governor for putting a murderer to death (I predict it will happen.) Nor do I wish to acknowledge the legitimacy of a Human Rights Commission headed by the Libyan Colonel of a Thousand Name Spellings.
I will admit the gamble has an up side. There is a strong chance the UN will reject our call to action, freeing us from any obligation to it. That could even mean the end of whatever power it does have, not necessarily a bad thing, either.