Daniel Drezner sums up my thoughts a helluva lot more succinctly than I did:
No amount of diplomacy in the world could have reconciled those views. A better effort would have left France more isolated in the Security Council, and given the looming war a greater patina of multilateralism. Make no mistake, however, this ending is not that much different from a best-case scenario.
Yep.
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