but the facts are that the "no fly zones" were not UN sanctioned/approved.
And doesn't that BEG the question as to why the UN was not involved?? After all, Saddam was in violation of UNSC resolutions, using his airpower to attack Shiite Marsh Arabs, as well as committing DRAMATIC ecological damage to an entire watershed... (where was the Sierra Club and Earthfirst! then??)
Someone had to do something... The UN was paralysed and the US, UK, and for a limited time, France, stepped up to the plate to enforce a containment policy that should have been the UN's responsibility to authorize.
Bottom line.. as we're seeing with Syria's appointment to the Security council, Libya leading the UN Human Rights office, and Iraq coming up for chairmanship of the UN disarmament committee, the "inmates are running the asylum"..
The UN is not worth being respected, nor existing as an entity, if all it can do is prove an obstacle to enforcing its own resolutions, or complaining about other nations doing what IT should have been doing years ago..
Hawk |
