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Politics : 2000:The Make-or-Break Election -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Shawn Donahue who wrote (489)7/24/2000 2:02:45 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1013
 
Congress cannot be by-passed on a matter like this, and any attempt to do so would automatically land in the Supreme Court. Your story only emphasizes that the UN does not have its own Army, that any rapid deployment force that was constituted would likely be under US direction, that the Security Council is still assumed to exist under the legislation, and that there is major opposition to even a relatively small standing contingent. What it would take to enforce UN sovereignty, we are nowhere close to having.......