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Monday, 24 March 2003

A dangerous precedent

Even Slate is doing interesting anti-war articles, such as Unauthorized Entry - The Bush Doctrine: War without anyone's permission.


But George W. Bush defied embarrassment and slew it with a series of Orwellian flourishes. If the United Nations wants to be "relevant," he said, it must do exactly as I say. In other words, in order to be relevant, it must become irrelevant. When that didn't work, he said: I am ignoring the wishes of the Security Council and violating the U.N. Charter in order to enforce a U.N. Security Council resolution. No, no, don't thank me! My pleasure!!