by Phyllis Bennis
Institute for Policy Studies

So What Should Be Done?

1) We should oppose any new UN resolution aimed at providing more legitimacy for the U.S.-UK occupation of Iraq. The UN should not endorse, and countries should not send troops or funds, to maintain or strengthen or “internationalize” Washington’s occupation. We should demand that the UN return to its earlier position in which for 8 ½ months the Council stood defiant of the Bush administration to defend its Charter mandate to “prevent the scourge of war.” That period, in which the UN was part of the international mobilization for peace, represented the global organization’s most “relevant” and most democratic moment. Continue reading…