Re: The Irrelevance of the UN in the Mid-east Crisis

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What about its heroic stand against North Korea?

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 07:20:40AM -0700, ken hanly wrote:
> The UN is so irrelevant that it is unable to pass even
> a toothless resolution condemning the Israeli attacks
> on Gaza and Lebanon since among other reasons the US
> would veto any such resolution.(In fact it already has
> vetoed a resolution re a ceasefire etc.)
>    In spite of this irrelevancy Bolton has nothing to
> say about it. I guess that irrelevancy is good when it
> suits US interests. When Bolton criticizes the UN for
> being irrelevant it simply means that the UN is not
> following US dictates.

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