Excuse me? Have you forgotten that the first Bush was the US ambassador to the UN and was soundly accused of being too pro-UN during his presidency? Or that Dubya at least tried to go through the UN? Clinton couldn't get the votes he needed to get them to act in Bosnia or Kosovo, so he by passed the UN embargos and forced NATO to redefine it's defensive charter so NATO could intervene. The UN didn't intervene in Rwanda or any of other major international crisis of the last 30 years. At least unless the rich nations who run the club decided there was nothing to lose by getting involved. The UN is nearly useless as it's currently constituted. It's been bypassed by US Presidents for decades. Why is it such a big deal only now? Where were you when Clinton was making them irrelevant?

The left's been whining that the UN wasn't involved in Iraq from the beginning. OK, the US is asking them to get involved a second time. More damned if you do and damned if you don't? Get your story straight, do you want the UN in or out?