Many world leaders, particularly those in Europe, decry the Bush administration’s undermining of the UN, especially since 2003. Yet leaders in France, who expressed outrage when the US sidestepped the UN and invaded Iraq without the international community’s blessing, stunned the world in August when they backed down from their promise to send 2,000 peacekeepers to intervene in southern Lebanon, and instead only committed 200.
许多世界领导人，尤其是欧洲领导人，都谴责布什政府削弱了联合国的力量，特别是在2003年以来。然而，在美国绕开联合国并未经国际社会同意就入侵伊拉克时表示愤慨的法国领导人们，却在今年8月再次令世界惊愕。他们没有信守向黎巴嫩南部派遣一支2000人的维和部队的承诺，而只派出了200人。