HANDY FACT-PAGE ON GULF WAR I, or the real start of the war last night, or whatever you want to call it, via Matt Welch.
It’s a CNN page cached by Google, whose highlighting makes it obvious how many countries fought in the first Gulf War: 34. No wonder CNN was flashing tickers that said (paraphrasing) “Bush claims over 35 nations backing U.S.”–that’s one more than the last go around.
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Of course, based on this definition, we’re still unilateral.
UPDATE: Or maybe unilateral simply means any coalition that Madeleine Albright doesn’t approve.
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