Tuesday, May 13, 2003 | 9:12 a.m.
"This war is all about U.N. resolutions," observed radio commentator Rush Limbaugh on March 14. Perhaps the most influential of the Bush administration's media flacks, Limbaugh somehow lurched into the truth about the administration's policy toward Iraq. Rather than defying the U.N. to protect America's interests, President Bush is putting the U.S. military into the service of resolutions the world body is too timid or impotent to enforce.
Astonishingly, the mainstream right, which is understandably furious at our foreign enemies, and hopelessly enamored with George W. Bush, has unwittingly bought this bill of goods. Republican Party loyalists, some, but not all "religious right" activists, "ditto-heads" and other movement conservatives have embraced the new line with the dutiful fervor of North Korean cadres parroting the latest pronouncements from Kim Jong Il.
But, as Secretary Colin Powell told reporters on March 17, "The U.N. is an important institution and it will survive, and the United States will continue to be an important member of the United Nations and its various organizations."
And, by doing so, our prosperity, liberty and national independence will continue to suffer.
CHARLES A. DELZOTTI
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