The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Tuesday, March 18, 2003  

THE UNIMPRESSIVE "COALITION OF THE WILLING"
Okay, But Are They Able?

The State Department today released a list of countries that constitute the "Coalition for the Immediate Disarmament of Iraq."

They are:

Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan.

How many are committing troops?

I count two definites: The U.K. and Australia.

Call me unimpressed.

Why does this whole thing have the ring of an "Open Letter" to it?

You know, the kind of "present danger" correspondence the neoconservatives pass around and then publish in the New York Times, the kind of crank mail that Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter always sign that would be more at home on the "Voice of the People" page of the New York Daily News?

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