“We really haven’t made up our minds,” confesses Arthur Sulzberger Jr, about the New York Times’ editorial position on a war against Iraq. Then he goes out on a limb: “What we have made up our minds about is unilateralism vs. multilateralism. We are fully for multilateralism.” I assume by this, he means the implementation of U.N. resolutions. So he is for war, no? The coalition is multilateral – the U.S. and two dozen other nations, backed by an unequivocal U.N. resolution. Or does he mean universalism – the notion that military action cannot happen without unanimous world support? Who knows? My bet is that the Times will only take a position when events have made such a position unavoidable. Profiles in courage, and all that. If the president were a Democrat, however, I have few doubts they would have come to some kind of decision by now.
MORE LATER: Maybe it was the Norwalk virus. I’ll spare you the details, but I should be more functional by tomorrow morning.
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