----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 4:52 PM Subject: Re: Who is the sheriff?
> --- "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. The US is not spotless and smugness is not called for. Especially if one is a supporter of our VP who lobbied hard to fight Clinton's continuation of the sanctions. However, there is an order of magnitude arguement. The French helped him develop atomic bomb capacities. The US weapons sales were very small, and were to both sides in the Iran-Iraq war. Further, after the Gulf war, France and Germany worked hard to keep Hussein in power. American companies that sold prohibited goods during that time used French subsidiaries to do it. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
