Who Can Really Say?

Available in tomorrow's NY Times today's Instapundit.

If this were happening to U.S. forces, it would be frontpage news worldwide, amid invocations of Vietnam and claims that it symbolized America's impotent brutality on the world scene. When it happens to the U.N., though, it hardly even counts as news.

But, you see, we must internationalize the War on Terror. We must have the U.N. with us. The more countries the better! If Kerry's elected President he'll make the world love us, so we can have these highly effective forces on our side. Vote Kerry. (Slap!)

But since when did agreeing on an objective become more important than actually achieving it?