The U.N. says: “I’m not dead yet”. Krauthammer disagrees.

Here's the key graf:

After the Blix report, France has nowhere to hide. It is the moment of truth for France, and, in a larger sense, for the United Nations. The United Nations is on the verge of demonstrating finally and fatally its moral bankruptcy and its strategic irrelevance: moral bankruptcy, because it will have made a mockery of the very resolution on whose sanctity it insists; strategic irrelevance, because the United States is going to disarm Iraq anyway.

If I remember correctly, there's a statue at the United Nations of a man (literally) beating a sword into a plowshare. If it was up to the U.N., this man would have to seek permission to verify that it is indeed a sword, approve the size, shape, and weight of the hammer, and assemble a multilateral force to do the work while a group of U.N. inspectors check that the plow meets E.U. trade specifications.