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2006-04-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Greretle Elmaise9763 2006-04-28 12:58|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I.E. they aren't going to do shit.

I can't see one benefit to us for being in the U.N.
All we do is shell out huge sums of money and take a bunch of abuse for it.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-04-28 13:49|| 2006-04-28 13:49|| Front Page Top

#2 A chapter 7 resolution carries the implicit threat "or else". We'll see if the chinese and russians veto or not.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2006-04-28 14:03|| 2006-04-28 14:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't underestimate what we're about. Diplomacy is sometimes like an issue oriented chess game. In this case, each wise diplomatic move results in our getting our way, more and more. Checkmate would be if we could stop Iran's nuclear weapons program with no interference from the other powers.

We are damn good chess players, but even so we must go through the motions, sometimes even sacrificing in some ways, to end up with the optimal situation from our point of view.

To use another analogy, it is not a "Red Queen's Race", though it usually appears we are running in place at the UN. It always has short, medium, and long-term goals, hidden though they may be. And it remains, "war through other means".

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-04-28 14:24|| 2006-04-28 14:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Normally, Anonymoose, I would agree. However, the US diplomats have proven to be such a bunch of talentless baffoons in the past, that I see this as another waste of time, talk, money, etc. At the end of the day, Russia, China and France will be on one side, US and eastern europe and a couple of arab nations on the other. Nothing will get done other than the aggrivation of countries and we will still have to blow the shit out of a now prepared and possibly nuclear Iran.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-04-28 14:34|| 2006-04-28 14:34|| Front Page Top

#5 they aren't going to do shit.

Amen brother. That is exactly what's going to happen.

Posted by JerseyMike 2006-04-28 16:01|| 2006-04-28 16:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Note to DarthBolton: ahMad doesn't care about being isolated. Invoke the Death Star!

Posted by Captain America 2006-04-28 17:31|| 2006-04-28 17:31|| Front Page Top

#7 I want a million dollars.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-04-28 20:47|| 2006-04-28 20:47|| Front Page Top

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