corrente

It may be true, as Kevin Drum infers from the Washington Post, that the Bush Administration is at this point willing to put anything on the table to get the UN involved in Iraq, so long as it gets them out by June. That in turn begs the question, why would the UN go along?

With each passing month before the election, the upside for the UN getting involved verges closer to zero. The Bush Administration's posture in essence is, we'll let you in on a piece of the action now, in return for helping us get a chance to inflict our arrogance and incompetence on you for another four years. Why wouldn't the UN wait?

I think jerking the Bush Adminstration off for several months first before walking away from the table would have a certain poetic justice to it, but that's probably too much to hope for.