At 21:31 21-10-2002 -0400, John Giorgis wrote:
Worse yet, several decisions have been made by just one country -- that happened every time a country with veto power decided to abuse that power to protect its friends and its own interests.Actually, the majority does not decide in the UNSC. First, decisions require a minimum of 9 out of 15 members. Secondly, many decisions with the support of 14-1 are not taken by the UNSC.
Those republican principles only apply within the US. The UN has not adopted those principles but has adopted the democratic principle of "one country, one vote". As a member country, the US is bound by that. How the US organises its internal democratic process is irrelevant.>But then, if you use the literal meaning, every democratic country in the >world could be considered "not a democracy". After all, when a government >wants a vote on something, it does not go and ask every single citizen for >his/her opinion; it asks the chosen representatives of those citizens for >their opinion.QED: The US is not abandoning democratic principles if it does not receive the support of the UN, since the US has never operated solely on democratic principles, it operates on republican principles.
Therefore, if the US goes against the will of the UN, it is abandoning democratic principles -- the democratic principles of an organisation of which it is a (founding!) member.
Jeroen "Voting is so much easier with Iraqi democracy" van Baardwijk
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