Hi Hawkmoon; Re: "But what kind of signal will the UN be sending to terrorists around the world?"
After months of hearing you bitch about how the UN was soft on Iraq, now I have to listen to you claim that the UN is suddenly going to get backbone??? You're in hope mode. The situation is hopeless.
Re: "I may be wrong, but I think the UN will step up support of the US, rather than continuing to advance their previous agenda of taking over complete control of the Iraqi situation."
In other words, the UN will step away from the situation, (leaving it to us to clean up the uncleanable) just like I said they will, LOL.
Re: "But I don't see Annan showing his "backside" in Iraq after such a major attack."
Just like Ronald Reagan said that the US would confront terrorists and stay in Lebanon, LOL. Except that Reagan actually came complete with testicles.
Re: "It would suggest that no future UN "nation building" operation could possibly succeed."
UN nation building operations have already succeeded in a few places, so no such future indication will come from Iraq. Maybe if people weren't able to tell the difference between one situation in one country and a different situation in another country, LOL. But hey, before the fact I told you guys that Afghanistan would be a cake-walk where our soldiers would be welcomed by celebrating Afghanis, but that in Iraq we would be sniped at until we knuckled under and left them to their own devices.
What's really bad about this is that our foreign policies have now created an Al Qaeda breeding ground where Saddam had once kept them thoroughly suppressed.
I don't think you realize how bad this is.
Back on September 11th, Al Qaeda attacked us with box cutters. The primitiveness of their weapons was an indication that they had no access to better stuff like surface to air missiles etc. But now, with the descent of Iraq into chaos, the deep pockets of the Iraqi military are now being opened up to Al Qaeda.
The neocons trembled in fear that Saddam would give WMDs to Al Qaeda. The non existence of those weapons would make their cowardly stupidity hilarious if it did not involve the killing of thousands of innocent people and the creation of a California sized terrorism training camp.
-- Carl |
