The Vanguardia's lead headline today is "Bush demands that UN obey him". There's impartiality for you. Bush did say that if the UN wimps out it will become an "ineffective and irrelevant debating society". Well? It will. If the Americans have to act against the UN's wishes, they will do so, and the UN will then be revealed to be as powerless as the old League of Nations was. Colin Powell is leaning on the French, Russian, and Chinese foreign ministers in New York right about now. There's not really much news on the international diplomatic front, or on the domestic political front, either. The media seems to be waiting suspensefully for today's Hans Blix report.