The United States dropped a push in the U.N. Security Council to earn approval of a second Iraq disarmament resolution. “We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration,” said John Negroponte, the American ambassador to the United Nations. This screengrab summed up well the mixed emotions of the day. In less than a week, the country was at war.
I also ate soda bread.
St. Patrick’s Day, two years ago
Finally saw the Chicago River dyed green.
St. Patrick’s Day, various years past
Tom Convery, a friend and a fine Irish-American, introduced and re-introduced me to a fine Irish prayer:
May those who love us love us,
And those who don’t love us
May God turn their hearts,
And if He doesn’t turn their hearts,
May He turn their ankles,
So we’ll know them by their limping.