Let's Make a Deal

摘要

In the days after Saddam Hussein was captured, five of the Gephardt―gave major foreign policy speeches and called once again for the internationalization of the reconstruction effort in Iraq. This has been an article of Democratic faith: the President needs to share power in Iraq with the U.N. and NATO but won't because he is a cowboy unilateralist. It is a line of attack that has always been hostage to the possibility that George Bush might change diplomatic course―and last week there were strong, if subtle, signs that the Administration was ready to involve both the U.N. and our NATO allies in the selec-tion of a new Iraqi government.