(Wall Street Journal) - James Schlesinger The rapid collapse of what many had expected to be a long and stout-hearted resistance has altered the tone in the Arab world. The many-heralded "catastrophes" did not take place. There was no "explosion" in the Middle East, no widespread unrest immediately upsetting governments, no endless urban warfare, no heavy casualties. The same people who said that an attack without an additional UN resolution would be the end of the UN are now desperately scrambling to refurbish and reestablish the role and the credibility of the UN - and, they hope, its ability to act as a constraint on American power.
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