Bush V. Annan: Taming the United Nations

The skill of Saddam Hussein's corrupting oil wealth and of his smuggling operations has exposed the administration of the UN to its enemies. In Pres George W. Bush's America, the UN has enemies in abundance, and the complex but scandalous nature of the UN's internal difficulties makes it hard for the UN's friends to defend it. As Walker opines, the UN now stands at bay in a confrontation that is protean in the way it sets the physical power of the world's only superpower against the moral power of the international body.