Friday, August 22, 2003
"Remember the Alamo!...
Remember the Maine!...
Remember... Remember...
(what was it again we wanted them to remember?")
This line from The New York Times story by Felicity Barringer jumped out at me this morning:
"Using the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad as a rallying cry, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell sought today to build support for a new Security Council resolution that would persuade other major nations to contribute more troops and aid to secure and rebuild Iraq under the aegis of the American-led occupation.
His appeal was not rejected out of hand by any Council members, but it met with a wary response from Germany and Russia and an icy rebuke from France."
Using the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad as a rallying cry?
The administration's hubris in going back to the UN over the last week or so, not really saying we wanted their help now, but that any assistance they gave (which we really didn't need) would still be entirely on our terms and under our control was embarrassing enough.
But now, rubbing their faces in the mess that we have made, not even apologizing for our part in the deaths of their colleagues, then turning it all into a sort of rallying cry, plucky Molly Pitcher moment, I would have thought was outside even the flabby ethical structure of the Bush administration.
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posted by Gotham 2:19 PM
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