John,
The problem with ''asking the UN permission to do this or that'' is that you must share some common set of values with the UN apparatus in the first place... I mean you can't expect Black people to ask the KKK about some Civil Rights/Race issues; you can't expect Israelis to ask the League of Arab States about the Palestinian problem; you can't expect Algeria's Islamic leaders to ask Knesseth or the US Jewish Lobby about solving the Algerian civil war; and, last but not least, you can't expect the Chinese to take advice from UN Gen. Secr. Kofi Annan about a settlement in Tibet or Taiwan or... you name it! There are just too many different cultural mindsets in the UN Security Counsel to deal fairly with every geopolitical crisis. Hence, NATO's unilateral intervention was the most practical action. To believe that imperial countries such as China, India, or Russia will care about ''minorities'' the same way the US will, is stupid: for ethnic monoliths such as China (Han elites), India (Hindu elites), or Russia (White Russian/Caucasian elites), minorities are nuisances to get rid of.
Gustave. |
