The Invisible Hand

Problems of Multilateralism -- Lesson One

Deutsche Welle is reporting that the weapons dossier Iraq submitted to the United Nations last week reveals Germany to be the Iraqi regime's top foreign supplier of weapons.

According to Tageszeitung, a left-wing rag out of Berlin, the number of German firms supplying the Saddam Administration exceeds by far the number of firms from other foreign countries.

Well now, this certainly puts Gerhard Schroeder's opposition to using force against Iraq in a new and less honorable light.

But we Americans . . . we're so simple.