B Nice war - here's the bill

In article ,
"Paul J. Adam" wrote:

In message , Alan Minyard
writes

The UN is a useless debating society, bent on doing nothing.

Worked pretty well at getting Hussein out of Kuwait in 1991.

Might have worked again in 2003.

You might note that the *last* time, Iraq actually had to invade another
country and threaten a couple more to get the UN to *allow* other
countries to respond...

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In message , Chad Irby
writes
In article ,
"Paul J. Adam" wrote:
Worked pretty well at getting Hussein out of Kuwait in 1991.

Might have worked again in 2003.

You might note that the *last* time, Iraq actually had to invade another
country and threaten a couple more to get the UN to *allow* other
countries to respond...

Sounds about right, unless you want UN-backed troops invading any
country who annoys enough of the Security Council and doesn't get a
veto...

The UN explicitly does not do "internal affairs". (Iraq was about
enforcing previous resolutions incurred over Kuwait) and in general this
is a Good Thing - as I'm sure the US would agree at the first
intervention it didn't like the tenor of.


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W S Churchill

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