She makes some good points. There have also been political costs to the multilateral fetishism. The "Mission Accomplished" speech was about telling those who had promised to help in Iraq after Saddam was defeated that it was time to come through. In hindsight, we would probably have been better off without the speech and without the "help." In reality this multilateralism was about appeasing unappeasible domestic critics who were charging that our efforts to liberate Iraq were "unilateral."

I do, however, think that the relationship with Poland has intangible benefits that go well beyond what is happening in Iraq.