One thing the current Iraq crisis has made clear is that a grand experiment of the twentieth century-the attempt to impose binding international law on the use of force-has failed. As Washington showed, nations need consider not whether armed intervention abroad is legal, merely whether it is preferable to the alternatives. The structure and rules of the UN Security Council really reflected the hopes of its founders rather than the realities of the way states work. And these hopes were no match for American hyperpower

The Bush administration's plan for Middle East peace is a road map to nowhere A more ambitious approach will be necessary to parlay the bounce from a successful Iraq war into serious Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. The time has come to consider the notion of a trusteeship for Palestine