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[Previous entry: "A Glance at the Kremlin"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Huh"] 27 March 2003: "Broad?"I was taking a shufti at this article in the NYT (I think I got the link from Jackie, but I could be wrong), and my eye was caught by the following passage: Mr. de Villepin became familiar to many Americans as the French diplomat who successfully led a broad coalition at the United Nations against attempts by the United States and Britain to secure Security Council authorization for last week's invasion of Iraq."Broad coalition"? Excuse me? Where did that come from? The last time I looked, that coalition consisted of five, count 'em, five countries. Three of these—France, Russia and China—have oil companies with provisional deals with Saddam, as well as unpaid bills for military hardware; another—Syria—makes, or at least, was making $2 million a day from smuggling Iraqi oil, and as for Germany, yeah, well. What's the criterium for a coalition in the UNSC to be "broad"? Five is "broad," four is not? |
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