Why Am I Not Surprised?

Four months after the Security Council ordered an independent board to monitor U.S. spending of Iraq’s oil revenues, diplomats on Thursday accused the United States of blocking it from taking up its duties. The diplomats blamed the delay on U.S. disagreements with the designated members of the as-yet nonexistent International Advisory and Monitoring Board over its duties. The board was to be created under a May 22 Security Council resolution. They said the disagreement reflected a U.S. desire to keep Iraqi reconstruction exclusively in American hands, an attitude they said discouraged other governments from picking up a bigger share of the cost of rebuilding the war-battered nation.