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The UN Should Either Shape Up or Step Aside
(U.S. News) Mortimer B. Zuckerman - The first casualty of the coalition's success must be the notion that the United Nations is the basis for a new world order. The UN not only failed but tried to prevent America and Britain from acting against the Iraqi threat. The UN debate over Iraq was not so much about Iraq as it was about constraining American power. We must ensure that chemical and biological weapons do not fall into rogue hands, and these efforts cannot be subject to vetoes from France and Russia. The UN must look to its own restructuring if it is to grow beyond the weakness and irrelevance that have characterized its conduct with regard to Iraq.