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Article: The United Nations under siege.(Viewpoint)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- March 18, 2005
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The United Nations today is an institution under siege. The Republican president and his leading colleagues in Congress are directing a steady torrent of fire against U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan over an array of problems--the so-called oil-for-food imbroglio, a recent sexual harassment scandal involving the High Commissioner for Refugees, the abuse of minors by U.N. troops in the Congo and, most of all, the Security Council's refusal in 2003 to endorse America's invasion of Iraq. Now, with President Bush's appointment of John Bolton, an angry neoconservative critic of the United Nations, as the new U.S. envoy to the body, the administration is acting directly to ...