« Thank God for the death of the Un. Its abjects failures gave us only anarchy. The world needs order.
Saddam Hussein’s reign of terror is about to end. He will go quickly, but not alone: in a parting irony, he will take the Un down with him. Well, not the whole Un. The “good works” part will survive, the low-risk peacekeeping bureaucracies will remain, the chatterbox on the Hudson will continue to bleat. What will die is the fantasy of the Un as the foundation of a new world order » (Richard Perle, The Guardian, Friday March 21, 2003).
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Illustration : « L’ordre règne à Varsovie » (après l’écrasement de la révolte polonaise par l’armée russe en 1831) ; lithographie de Granville, 1831, Paris, Bnf.
