Hawk, re <The UN issued what can only be analogized as a binding mandate, enforceable under international law >
Since the USA doesn't recognize international law, it's puzzling why the rest of us should.
I know the USA prefers laws for rich and poor, strong and weak with the poor and weak being a modern day source of feudalism fodder, but there's been a centuries long trend in the civilized world for universal laws. Weirdly, the serfs don't like being second class or third class citizens. Strange though that might seem.
How to create a human legal system is the issue that matters. How to move from the constant warring, conflict and confrontation of the olde European system of shifting alliances in little fiefdoms.
The structure of the UN, with despotic regimes of hell having a say or even being chairman, and a WWII Victor's Club holding vetoes, and the toughest gang now doing pre-emptive strikes against anyone they fancy, like any common street gang, holding prisoners incommunicado with no human rights other than an unchallenged triad of military tribunal, is obviously useless.
The USA has set itself up as a target and soldiers are now being shot. It's time for the UN in Iraq Hawk. Get the boys [and the few girls] out to safety. It's not worth it to steal the oil [or at least all the production business]. The USA is now safe from Saddam's WMD so they can leave, with the brand spanking new reconstituted UN in charge.
Winning wars is easy. Any idiot can smash people and things. Just push the red button. It's building things and making civil society which is the hard part.
Like the USA, I don't accept UN law. It's an antidemocratic system of privilege and old-time power, busy-bodying and bureaucracy. The absurd Milosevic trial shows the uselessness of it. It's just jobs for the legal boys and girls who will keep playing until all the money's gone.
If King George II can't be hauled before the court, along with anyone else, then it's not acceptable to me. The USA is in the box seat to get a new UN going. If they don't, they will continue to see what has always happened with empire. Potshots at the unelected rulers who bully and attack the serfs and enslaved and confiscate their property. The only way to suppress opposition is to get up to the elbows in gore [a bit like Saddam did for so long]. Which some people are comfortable with and even actively enjoy.
The USA should now establish a UN Conference for Reconstitution - in Iraq, where they can see for themselves the consequences of political and civil failure.
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