What if when the UN takes a vote and does not ratify the proposals as submitted.No amount of further " consultation " can meet an acceptable compromise, and the US walks away to begin unilateral action?
Unilateral action begins as a regime change attempt with no other ME country onboard, except Israel, as all those countries have backed a UN only resolution
I don't know exactly what would happen then, but I highly doubt your 'no country except Israel' scenario. When the US talks, people listen, and I think our current allies -- Israel, Turkey, Jordan, Kuwait, Qattar, and yes even SA, would still be with us. Wasn't just a few weeks ago that we were hearing how nobody but Israel would be with us. Then hey presto, it turned out we were serious, suddenly we had troops and allies everywhere, and even SA lets us use our bases. Now you tell me they're all going to refuse permission again if we don't get the UN vote? Very noble minded of them, to risk our anger for the sake of supporting the UN. Which is why it wouldn't happen that way.
We are seriously throwing our weight around in the Gulf. If we don't, Saddam will. And I tell you, the number of countries who would rather have us be master than Saddam is quite large, though most of them are still denying it publicly. But that's only to be expected. |
