MNF = Multi-National Force Ron, now how "multilateral" do you think 26 is. The original number of participants in the "coalition of the willing" in March 2003 outnumbered of participating countries that made up the "coalition forces" in 1990 (43 compared to 34 IIRC).

But Ron, your question is irrelevant, UN forces who fought in Korea were predominantly from the US, that still does not alter the fact one jot that the action fought on the Korean Peninsula was a UN action and not an American War. Likewise in Iraq the MNF is a UN Force operating under a UN Mandate.

Still see that you are attempting to introduce your "red herring" into the equation Ron. Yugoslavia ceased to exist nine months before Bosnia-Herzegovina declared independence. The peoples of the former Yugoslav Republic practiced their right to self determination long before Bosnia came into being, therefore there was never any attempt to hold Yugoslavia together. Mention of it therefore becomes irrelevant to what is being discussed.

Glad to see that you admit that it is still early days in Iraq and that the MNF should be given time to achieve what a similar UN force achieved over the past fifteen years in Bosnia.