--- "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert J. Chassell wrote: > >...will an imperfect institution like the UN > >act to settle disputes among nations, or will the > US administration do this? > > To the extent that the United Nations is a world > government, then its > executive branch as the US armed forces, from > defengin the Republic of Korea...<snip> > >Interestingly, the French and the Chinese have been > arguing both that > >the sheriff should be someone other than President > Bush -- should be > >the UN -- and at the same time, that the UN should > not `carry a pistol'... <snip> > > > >Why is this? > > Because they are the outlaws that benefit from the > absence of a sherrif? > One of them commits crimes. The other supplies > the equipment for other outlaws to commit crimes.
They do want to talk out of both sides of their mouths, true; but the US is not exactly spotless when it comes to supplying weapons to various questionable regimes - Iraq among them. OK Corral Maru __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
