Multilateralism in Action

Via Instapundit, here's an interesting column by Bryan Preston at Tech Central Station on how the Bush Administration is working with our allies to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons technology:

It is playing a key role in curbing and caging North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il. It played a key role in disarming Libya, discovering and rolling up the Pakistani A.Q. Khan nuclear smuggling network, and has become a framework for international military and police exercises organized by the United States. Its membership includes most of the world's largest economic powers, most of the world's largest military powers, and most of the most influential states on earth. The United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Russia, the Netherlands, France, Australia and Germany are among its 15 member states, and it is one of the pillars of the Bush administration's strategy to both win the war on terrorism and halt the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. As an organization set up to perform a mission that the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency have jointly failed, halting the spread of nuclear weapons, it has the potential of becoming an alternative to the UN itself in coming decades. Notably, all of its members to date are democracies.


But thanks to the media and Democrats who insist on portraying the Bush administration as "unilateral," you have probably never heard of it.


Please read the whole thing. I just hope someone lets John Kerry in on this.