1. There was no international consensus on how to deal with the situation. 2. International consensus on an agreement that would ban all mining and oil drilling activities in Antarctica may be reached at a meeting to be held in Chile in November. 3. And what the United States needs to do to protect its people should not be subordinate to developing an international consensus. 4. A stable world order must be built on a broad international consensus, not American military action alone. 5. All along Hussein has tried to protest and prod until the international consensus on sanctions falls apart. 6. But as India well knows, an international consensus now exists for banning nuclear tests though not for eliminating nuclear weapons. 7. But some prominent Indian doctors have long dissented from the international consensus. 8. But sometimes it better serves the United States to sacrifice some immediate objectives in order to build a broader international consensus and uphold international rule of law. 9. For one thing, there is an international consensus that as long as the United States is pursuing Mr. bin Laden, it is acting in self-defense. 10. For an evolving international consensus leans against predatory politics and punishes war criminals as no previous time did. |