http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/08/08/random-ramblings/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:45:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/08/08/random-ramblings/comment-page-1/#comment-250359 Across the Aisle » International legitimacy does matter Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:58:37 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/08/08/random-ramblings/#comment-250359 [...] Chris Preble highlighted yesterday an op-ed by Ivo Daalder and Robert Kagan that appeared in Monday’s Washington Post.  I actually had somewhat of a different reaction to the piece.  Chris wrote that Kagan and Daalder, “celebrate the broad bipartisan consensus among the Washington policy elites and the major party candidates in favor of military intervention.”  When I read the piece I felt that the focus of the article was more on the importance of “international legitimacy” whenever the U.S. considers military action.  For many years polls have shown that Americans are much more comfortable with the use of force if it has broad international support, often in the form of UN Security Council resolutions.  The Bush administration recognized this and, even after UN rejection, hailed its “Coalition of the Willing” that had been, in many cases (with the exceptions Australia and Britain), basically strong armed and bribed into token participation.   [...] [...] Chris Preble highlighted yesterday an op-ed by Ivo Daalder and Robert Kagan that appeared in Monday’s Washington Post.  I actually had somewhat of a different reaction to the piece.  Chris wrote that Kagan and Daalder, “celebrate the broad bipartisan consensus among the Washington policy elites and the major party candidates in favor of military intervention.”  When I read the piece I felt that the focus of the article was more on the importance of “international legitimacy” whenever the U.S. considers military action.  For many years polls have shown that Americans are much more comfortable with the use of force if it has broad international support, often in the form of UN Security Council resolutions.  The Bush administration recognized this and, even after UN rejection, hailed its “Coalition of the Willing” that had been, in many cases (with the exceptions Australia and Britain), basically strong armed and bribed into token participation.   [...]

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