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| UN: Kofi unilaterally asks the US to get unilateral |
| 2003-06-30 |
| Look who's circumventing international law all of a sudden. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan kept up pressure on the United States to lead intervention in Liberia on Monday as troops strengthened defenses around battle-worn Monrovia in fear of another bloody rebel attack. West African countries pledged troops for a peacekeeping force on Sunday, but they want help from the United States to prevent a bloodbath in the capital and end nearly 14 years of violence that have infected the impoverished region. "There are lots of expectations that the United States will be able to lead the force," Annan told reporters in Geneva. "But that is a sovereign decision for them to take." I don't know, Koaf. Sounds kinda morally shaky to me, just marching in without a Security Council resolution and the approval of the international community. Seems to me that would be a violation of international law or something. Not to mention that fact that we'd be opening ourselves up to massive worldwide protests and Birdish playwrights calling us Nazis and the World Council of Churches Nobody Goes To Anymore calling us even more evil than the last time they called us evil and such like things as that. We don't want to rub it in or anything, Koaf, but we did tell you our Iraq thing was a "sovereign decision" and it's nice to see you're finally on board/ |
| Posted by:Christopher Johnson |