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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (110353)	8/7/2003 5:46:30 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I hope I'd at least stir some thinking about the assumptions! The UN has no more moral authority than that of its constituent States. Less so, in many cases. The authority and the power of the UN is derived solely from the power of the nation-states that comprise it, and the ability of the UN to decide and act is delimited by the self-interests of those states. "The UNSC decided..." can't be divorced from "the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia, and China decided..." Kofi Annan has no clothes. It's hard to imagine how there can be some sort of moral blemish on the US acting in its interests against the UNSC, when all that means is the US acted against the interests of Russia, France, and China. Did it ruffle some feathers? Sure. Did it violate some Cosmic Moral Law? Sure didn't. Derek