If you enjoy the meanderings of brilliant people caulking creaking windows with philosophy this group effort looks especially promising.
Juan Cole is near right in equating the rumoured withdrawal of some U.S. troops in Iraq by the Pentagon to withdrawal plans proferred by the “peace movement“, as both would result in an extension of the long-term goal of occupying Iraq, since the latter remains in complete denial of the efficacy of the United Nations in its present operational mode to be a fair and just intermediary and ignores the business ties that bind the Arab League to its Western enablers.
But he shouldn’t ignore the most critical points, even if they haven’t a snowball’s chance in hell of materialising, unless a global consensus can be reached on why there isn’t a just intermediary above reproach, and create one:
(I’ve left off the last sentence, which is, “Until that time, the UN should control those international accounts”, for obvious reasons.)