Julian Borger: The decision to abstain from the UN security resolution on Gaza shows America's reflex in response to ...

The Bush administration has stayed true to itself to the very end. The last-minute decision to abstain from the UN security resolution on Gaza last night is a classic example of Washington inter-agency conflict pitting ideology against diplomacy. Characteristically, ideology won and the state department, and Condoleezza Rice in particular, were made to look foolish. She had been integrally