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Call the Vote and Walk Away
(Washington Post) Charles Krauthammer - The UN did not sanction the Kosovo war, surely a just war, and that did not in any way make it illegitimate. Of the scores of armed conflicts since 1945, exactly two have received Security Council sanction: the Korean War (purely an accident, the Soviets having walked out over another issue) and the Gulf War, that ended in a cease-fire whose terms everybody agrees Hussein has violated.