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Article: UNITED NATIONS NO HERO.(PERSPECTIVE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2004
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Byline: ANNE APPLEBAUM
When you read the words ``United Nations,'' what comes into your mind? Perhaps it's an august phrase, such as ``international community,'' or a lofty image, such as the blue U.N. seal. In the first presidential debate, President Bush spoke of ``going to the United Nations'' as if it were a tiresome relative. (``I didn't need anybody to tell me to go to the United Nations. I decided to go there myself.'') Sen. John Kerry often talks about the United Nations as if it were a forgotten American ally.
Yet the United Nations is not a person, or an ally, or a concept. Unlike, say, Britain or Sri Lanka, it isn't even a country with a ...