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To: RetiredNow who wrote (257340)	10/28/2005 9:45:33 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571813

re: The UN Security Council is worthless. Russia is more interested in making money in Iran and China doesn't share the same values as we do. So they see the Iranian problem also as a way to make money and secure even more oil for themselves. I think the fact that we let the UN be joined by a bunch of countries that aren't really Democratic is starting to come back to bite us. We are finding out that multilateralism, when the other laterals are not Democratic, DOESN'T work at all. It's a matter of opinion. I think the security council is worthless because we have a neo administration that has no interest in building consensus. They only want to further their US hegemony policies. it's very clear in their philosophy. Prior to this administration we were making good progress towards a world consensus, powered by old and new democracies, that could and would punish rouge regimes. Now we have disharmony and distrust of US motives throughout the world. We don't have the moral authority or the resources to police the world. That should be self-evident. The only way to drive world politics is through multilateralism. "You can't always get <exactly> what you want, but if you try sometime, you get what you need". John

To: RetiredNow who wrote (257340)	10/28/2005 11:42:53 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571813

I think the fact that we let the UN be joined by a bunch of countries that aren't really Democratic is starting to come back to bite us. We are finding out that multi-lateralism, when the other laterals are not Democratic, DOESN'T work at all. The reason that Russia and other non democratic nations were asked to join was because some control however small was better than no control. Roughly, 10-15% of the world has a legitimate democratic form of gov't. A world institution made up of only those nations would be meaningless. ted