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George Bush was considered such a go-it-alone unilateralist by many world leaders that simply taking the podium at the U.N. was enough to win him praise. "This process will assuage Europe and others," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told Bush privately before the President's address last week. Bush scolded the diplomats for letting Saddam Hussein snub them for 11 years and stopped just short of calling them irrelevant, yet was congratulated for pledging to work with the world body on a new resolution that would force Iraq to give up its weapons of mass destruction...
...seemed until last week. So successful was Bush's Sept. 12 speech to the U.N. in rallying an international consensus against Iraq that it left Saddam Hussein with little choice but to do what he rarely does: concede something. In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Iraq announced that after four years of blowing off inspections, it was now ready to submit to them "without conditions." That left the war camp in an awkward dilemma. Can you convince the world it needs to get rid of a bully if the bully suddenly appears to be playing nice...
Last week, in an impassioned speech before the United Nations, President Bush called on Iraq to comply with international resolutions and allow weapons inspectors to return with unfettered access. This past Monday, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan announced that Baghdad had succumbed to growing pressure and was prepared to allow the unconditional return of the inspectors. Annan hailed the announcement as an astounding turn of events, an “indispensable first step.” Yet the White House—not surprisingly—didn’t seem very happy...
They’ll come to the IOP for the chance to meet political celebrities—who last year included both Bill and Hillary Clinton as well as Kofi Annan...
...Bush is ready to lead, just as Begin was in 1981; and just as the Israeli prime minister stayed resolute in his convictions despite the barrage of international criticism that followed the bombing of Osirak, Bush should likewise remain unfazed by the muddled arguments of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and the senseless posturing of ungrateful European chancellors...