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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JohnM who wrote (45980)	9/21/2002 8:59:06 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

John, why do you regard the UN Security Council as having more authority in foreign affairs than the US government? Did you or I ever vote for these people, or are they representatives of their governments, still mostly dictatorships? For the love of pete, why do you think that emasculating the government of the United States in favor of the UN Security Council would be an advance for either law or security? Does their track record inspire confidence? To me, this represents an incomprehensible sentiment, explicable more by opposition to the current administration than by ideology. Unless you really intend to advocate transnational progressivism, that incohate successor ideology to socialism? hudson.org

To: JohnM who wrote (45980)	9/22/2002 2:29:40 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

To make sure that the Bush administration cannot draw on the resolution's ambiguity as a license to use force throughout a conflict-ridden region of the world, Congress has to insist that the resolution be rewritten to make clear that Bush will be authorized to take action only against Saddam's dictatorship in Iraq. Bingo. Sensible enough. . . . but that congressional resolution should include a commitment to base military action against Saddam on a UN Security Council resolution. Bingo, again. Nyet. The United Nations does not and should not determine US foreign policy. Derek