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To: Road Walker who wrote (223233)	3/10/2005 9:28:54 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572264

When are you going to enlist? When are you going to propose a massive tax increase to pay for the adventures? Or is it just OK if it's no skin off your back? This is not what America is about. Well said. Thanks. Al

To: Road Walker who wrote (223233)	3/10/2005 9:36:19 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572264

Listen, the UN is essentially the Security Council; the Secretariat has very little policy power. If we can't convince the other member of the SC to act, maybe there is a good reason. Maybe. Maybe not. How do you explain that the UN has done nothing in Darfur yet? What might the good reason be? If the news reports are true, routine raping/killing/ murder/displacement of minority groups by governmnet funded bandits occurs, and has been going on for over a year. It has been universally condemned, and the current regime in Sudan seems to just deny its existence. I'm not aware of the "good reason" why an outside force shouldn't use force to stop this activity - are you? As far as I know the UN is not even discussing removing Robert Mugabe from power, and his government has completely destroyed Zimbabwe's economy and significantly reuined the lives of the average Zimbabwean. I don't think the UN sees its role as what I have described in previous posts. I think it should, but I don't think it does at the moment. This is where earlier discussions of a United Nations of Democratic Countries should be formed comes in. As for Iraq, we shall see over the next decade whether invasion 2 produced more good that the other option (a continuation of the 1991-2002 Iraq situation). Time will tell.