The Wily Filipino

Coalition of the Halfhearted.

Bill Keller in The New York Times yesterday, on the countries that comprise Colin Powell's "coalition of the willing:"

And much as I respect Estonia and El Salvador, there is something ridiculous about the list of our "partners" ? a coalition of the anonymous, the dependent, the halfhearted and the uninvolved, whose lukewarm support supposedly confers some moral authority. This is like ? oh, I don't know, wresting a dubious election victory in Florida and claiming a mandate. It lacks a certain verisimilitude.