I, for one, am happy that Annan has realized that the UN must come to some common ground on exactly what the terrorist threat is, who are terrorists and what will be acceptable or non-acceptable means to deal with them. I'd like to see the same questions asked of proliferation - and maybe they are in the paper too.
If the world can agree on these things, the future will be much brighter than if it cannot. If it cannot and if there are future attacks on US soil, the UN will lose it's relevance and is it will be unable to moderate in the dispute of how terrorism and proliferation should be handled and even what constitutes terrorism or proliferation.
What we're witnessing is an extremely limited war being fought right now. A nuclear terrorist attack on US soil would in all likelihood lead to total war in the Middle East.
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