UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday said U.S. "unipolar" policies had failed in Iraq and Afghanistan and helped provoke the recent conflict in Georgia. Russia's invasion of Georgia last month has brought relations with the United States to their lowest point since the end of the Cold War. In a strongly worded speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Lavrov called the U.S.-led war in Iraq a "painful blow" to global anti-terrorism efforts and questioned the NATO-led force fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. He described U.S. foreign policy as "unipolar" meaning that Washington regarded itself as...
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