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To: marcos who wrote (112821)	8/26/2003 10:56:55 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Popular does mean popular ... fact remains that a decision arrived at by broad based democratic input will be seen as having greater legitimacy than will some Diktat cooked up in the back rooms of a single national capital Most of the countries in the UN are dictatorships, should a vote by a number of small third world dictatorships determine if an action is legitimate? I have two problems with that idea, one is that I disagree with the idea that something a group of countries or an international organization does is more legitimate then something a single country does, the other is that even if we are to require some sort of international agreement neither the UN nor just counting the number of countries that agree is sufficient. you can argue absolute right and wrong all day, it doesn't matter, what matters is what works, and what does not work If you concerned about the purely practical then one powerful nation, or a small coalition of like minded partners, are likely to be more effective then an unwieldy coalition or international bureaucracy. it is the impulse that says, those buggers aren't gonna tell me what to do when i have no voice in the decision Do you think Burkina Faso, Uganda, and Mongolia should have a say in US foreign policy and security decisions? Do you care to guess of what the following is a definition? - I don't understand the purpose of the question. Definition of what? Tim