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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
Seems to me I remember a phrase from that era - "Coalition of the willing..."
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The term
coalition of the willing is a post-1990 political phrase used to describe military or military/humanitarian interventions for which the United Nations Security Council cannot agree to mount a full UN peacekeeping operation. It has existed in the political science/international relations literature at least since UN peacekeeping operations began to run into deep trouble in 1993-94, and alternatives began to be considered. One early documented use of the phrase was by President Bill Clinton in June 1994 in relation to possible operations against North Korea, at the height of the 1994 stand-off with North Korea over nuclear weapons.[1]
It has been applied to the Australian-led INTERFET operation in East Timor, and,
in its most well-known example by George W. Bush,[1] the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
