How’s That Multilateralism Going? - Jennifer Rubin
Obama and his Left-leaning supporters in universities and the media swoon over the idea of “multilateralism.” Unilateralism is not only portrayed as simplistic, arrogant and chauvinistic but also as ineffectual. Multilateral meetings, multilateral institutions, and, well, anything “multi” are preferable over America just doing what it wants, even in consultation with a group of similarly minded allies (presuming we still have any after the way we’ve treated Poland, the Czech Republic, Honduras, and Israel). Multilateralism is considered by Obama and his ilk as smart and, in the right hands, a vastly superior methodology for solving the world’s problems. But how does multilateralism work in practice? We had two examples this week.