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Title: Washington's Exceptionalism and the United Nations (Global Insights)
Author : Global Governance
Release Date : January 01, 2004
Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 241 KB

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It is still too early to be definitive about what the U.S.-led action in Iraq will mean for the future of Iraqis, for regional stability, and for the United Nations. Answers will have to wait until the future of Iraq itself is clearer, particularly whether the Iraqis can transit into peaceful self-government or will descend into civil war. Nonetheless, some things are clear enough already. One is that what little consensus there was internationally on the nature of the major threats facing the international community, and how to respond to them, has diminished. Another is that with the evaporation of its stated casus belli--a threatening Iraq armed with weapons of mass destruction (WMD) cooperating with Al-Qaida--the United States has significantly deepened the hole it had already dug for itself in international public opinion. Further, the exceptionalistic self-view of Washington is neither concentric with others' perceptions of the United States nor conducive to securing their cooperation. With its Iraq enterprise in jeopardy and November's elections at risk, Washington apparently sees renewed utility in cooperating with the UN in Iraq. But the Iraq war has caused substantial harm to the UN. Whether and how effectively the UN, which already had its own problems--notably a charter written in and for another age--will be able to respond could be decisive to its future. The debate that commenced spontaneously in the United States after the horrific losses of September 11 about "why these people hate us so much" ended nearly as quickly as it began. People came too readily to the conclusion that the impetus for anti-Americanism, of which terrorism was the most virulent manifestation, was to be found predominantly, even exclusively, in America's successful, creative, and innovative society. It was assumed that terrorists hated the United States not for what it did but for what it was, that the issue was essentially existential and therefore not resolvable.