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That being said, multilateral organizations can definitely be forces for good in the world—NATO being the most prominent example—and America would obviously be better served if more U.N. leadership roles were held by liberal democracies, instead of dictatorships and anti-American tyrannies. Reforming the U.N. is thus a worthwhile goal. However, it may prove unnecessary, for the U.N. is in danger of consigning itself to the dustbin of insignificance. Should the Security Council decide not to enforce its own resolutions for disarming the regime in Baghdad, it will be forfeiting all its remaining credibility...
After all the U.S. anger over European veto threats at NATO and the U.N., the latest round of World Trade Organization talks showed that America still knows how to derail international negotiations when it's in the mood. The Doha trade round, which was meant to bring poor countries into the world economy when it launched in 2001, was on the skids last week, after negotiators deadlocked over plans to provide cheap medicine to the developing world. The deadline for an agreement has passed, and passed again. But still the U.S. shows no signs of backing down from its lone...
...that he had no room for error, not even for a day's delay in shooting. So, of course, the errors started compounding immediately. It wasn't supposed to rain on the first day of shooting, but it did, turning the location into a quagmire. Jets from a nearby NATO base weren't supposed to come screaming overhead all the time, but they did, making it impossible to record sound. Above all, Gilliam's Don Quixote, the French actor Jean Rochefort, was not supposed to get sick, but he did. Mostly he was absent. When he was present, he could...
...sign contracts wherever they get the best deal. As for average U.S. consumers, they've shown little compunction about buying diamonds that fund bloody militias in Africa, so in the long term they're unlikely to lose their appetite for flash rocks over a mere Belgian waffle over NATO...
...Afghan battlefields. Contracts soon multiplied. "The U.S. has plenty of firepower," says Kevin Landis, chief investment officer of Firsthand Funds, a tech-focused mutual-fund group in Silicon Valley. "But Frank Lanza tells them where to point it." L-3's military customers also include Canada and other NATO countries...