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...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...
...anyone could remember, unprecedented. Last Friday morning, as Dominique de Villepin, the French Foreign Minister, finished his remarks before the United Nations Security Council, the galleries burst into spontaneous applause. De Villepin had said what most of those in the audience wanted to hear, that "war is always the sanction of failure" and that the use of force against Iraq "is not justified at this time." France, de Villepin said, "believes in our ability to build a better world together...
Harvard is at the top of a NCWO web site listing “corporations that sanction sex discrimination...
...government and most of European public opinion don't think so." On its face, that suggests France would veto a resolution authorizing war--something it has not done since the Suez crisis in 1956. But to do so would invite the U.S. to go to war without U.N. sanction, as Bush has said he would, and would effectively wreck the Security Council, along with France's pretensions of being a great power...