So Joe Conason calls Cheney a Bircher. Is he right? Pretty much. It is reasonable to argue that the UN isn’t perfect or to even propose a better alternative. However, as with nearly all of this administration’s foreign policy initiatives, the administration is not only trashing an international agreement, arrangement, or institution, but refusing to propose an alternative.
Perhaps that is unfair, the US unilaterally acting or acting with a small number of allies is an alternative, just not a good long term strategy.
It isn’t the criticism of an international institution that is the problem, it is the absolute refusal to offer any alternatives that is quickly pushing away those who should be our allies.