Arianna Huffington Fever Sweeps Brentwood! UN Saving Neocons?

Kausfiles has learned that Arianna Huffington is seriously thinking about running for governor of California in the upcoming "replacement" election on October 7. At least one brainstorming session has been scheduled for this weekend at her house in Brentwood, California to figure out how to make it happen.

The UN Saves the Neocons?

Note that if other member countries of the United Nations supply the peacekeeping troops that are now missing in Rumsfeld's plan, the U.N. may perversely be saving the grand neocon military strategy from failure more than it's saving the Iraq invasion from collapse. The U.S. might be perfectly able to stabilize Iraq by sending in a lot more American troops, after all--but that would save Iraq at the expense of the neocon's "usability." We couldn't fight many other wars if we had to commit a huge portion of our army to peacekeeping after each one. But if we can fight the war with a small U.S. combat force (as in Iraq) and then send in U.N. troops to do the cleanup and policing--even if that means giving the U.N. more control over reconstruction--we can repeat the process again and again without tying up all our divisions of fighters. ... Who knew the don't-tie-us-down neocons would wind up relying on the United Nations they scorn?

This logic is surely not lost on the other nations in the U.N.. If they send troops they're not just legitimating a bold recent use of U.S. military power. They are, in a very practical, non-precedential sense, enabling future bold, semi-unilateral uses of U.S. military power