Word: sanction
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Building international trust will greatly improve America’s global political capital. Tragically, Bush’s coarse manner of declaring his intentions for war before presenting a compelling case or seeking international sanction utterly failed to persuade the world. Only bullies talk loudly and carry a big stick...
...Iraq are not limited to disarmament: The only way to avoid a war now is not for the regime to submit to disarmament demands, but for Saddam Hussein to leave town. Talk of regime-change had been played down during the six months that the administration sought UN sanction for an invasion on the grounds that Iraq had failed to heed UN disarmament resolutions. Regime-change, after all, is a radical concept that lies beyond the realm of the sovereignty-based UN system, and even such close allies as the British may have trouble selling their electorate...
Sandel discussed whether these doctrines sanction the more advanced technology of today...
...legitimate without the sanction of the U.N.? Of course it can. Traditional just-war theory leaves the responsibility for grave decisions like these to the relevant authorities--the parties to the dispute and the countries planning to take action. We do not live under a world government. We live under a system in which nation states wield authority in cooperation with one another. A coalition of the willing--a majority of the states in Europe, the U.S., Britain and other countries--easily qualifies as a legitimate source of authority for launching...
...Bush's principal ally. Failure to secure one before war is undertaken could prove a political disaster for British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has faced big demonstrations for peace and has promised the electorate that guns will not be fired without an attempt to win a further U.N. sanction. Blair, says a U.S. official, wants a second resolution "in the worst way. It's probably indispensable to him." If that's what Blair wants, that's what he will get. Bush himself backs Blair to the hilt. "You're a great leader," the President told the Prime Minister last...