Former embed Jonathan Foreman is worried about the administration’s current U.N. policy:

The hasty turn to the United Nations smells of panic, unwarranted panic at that, and even worse, the foolish subordination of Iraq policy to electoral concerns.
The administration may genuinely believe it isn’t engaged in a humiliating climbdown, but that is inevitably going to be the perception, here and abroad.
The practical point of the move, to the extent it has any, is to obtain the U.N. fig leaf that will make politically possible the deployment of troops from India, Pakistan and Turkey.
But even if it were worth eating some humble pie to bring in three divisions from those countries — and that’s debatable, given the horrifyingly brutal counter-insurgency records of all three militaries — the timing of the pie-eating could hardly be more dangerous.
To go crawling back to the United Nations, tail between our legs, only a week after the Najaf bombing, tells the world — and, more importantly, the people of Iraq — that the bombings and attacks on U.S. troops have succeeded. It signals that America is, if not exactly on the run, severely rattled.