But he said a "continuation of a unilateralist approach" would be disastrous for the country.
The indirect costs, both of the war in particular and of the Administration's unilateralist approach to foreign policy in general, have also been immense.
Among the elder Bushes' many friends described in this book are people decidedly at odds with their son's markedly more unilateralist approach to foreign policy.
Gen. Wesley Clark could be shadow national security adviser, offering an alternative to the administration's unilateralist approach to the war on terror.
If the United States determines such matters for itself, it risks international opprobrium for a unilateralist approach, a claim with which the Bush administration is familiar.
The left fights its war against corporate sins during an administration that boasts a record unemployment, unilateralist approaches in foreign policy and ever expanding deficits.
Today's reversal is another example of how Mr. Bush has migrated from a unilateralist approach to foreign policy to an approach that shows a deepening commitment to coordination and cooperation.
But Mr. Hellman and others argue that some of the increase is also a reaction to America's more unilateralist military approach.
In 1989, therefore, Neil Kinnock made it explicit that he was rejecting the unilateralist approach of his youth.
Europe must therefore express its view on the new strategic doctrine of the Bush administration, which exalts military force, justifies a unilateralist approach and legitimises pre-emptive war.