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At 09:28 PM 10/21/2002 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>THE QUESTION:
>Why would countries (European and other) insist on UN support if they would
>consider the UN to be a discredited body?
>
>THE ANSWER (as it should have come from JDG):
>Indeed, Jeroen, it would not make sense for those countries to insist on UN
>support if they would consider the UN to be a discredited body. However, as
>you have correctly pointed out, they *are* insisting on UN support. It
>therefore logically follows that those countries do not consider the UN to
>be a discredited body. As it his extremely unlikely that at the same time I
>am right and hundreds of thousands of politicians and diplomats worldwide
>are wrong, I concede that my statement "the UN is a discredited body" can
>no longer be maintained as a statement of fact. Therefore, I hereby retract
>that statement.
Uhhhh..... Jeroen, now you are evading your own questions! You asked
why Europeans insist on UN support, *if* they consider the UN to be
discredited. If you change the question in your answer (by deleting the
"if" statement), you are, by definition, evading the question, and
substituting your own question for the asked question.
JDG
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