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To: GST who wrote (191640)	7/14/2006 3:16:26 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Iraq invaded Kuwait and Iraq was expelled by the UN -- not by the US. So the UN now has an army? Funny.. I don't remember seeing any of them there. Iraq was expelled by a coalition of member states that joined together to carry out the enforcement of a UNSC binding resolution. It wasn't mandatory for all member states of the UN to participate. In fact, a majority did not. If the UN had the power to dictate and mandate the use of military force, one would think they would have the authority to draft the militaries of various soveriegn member states and demand that they deploy to carry out their binding resolutions. But they don't. The UN is NOT a world government. It is a CONFEDERATION of member states created for the purpose of conflict resolution and the promotion of peace, who can choose to enforce the collective resolve of the UNSC, or ignore it. In fact, even if the UNSC only resorted to sanctions against Iraq, there would be no mandate for member states to engage their military power to enforce it. The UN is only as strong as the collective will of its member states to enforce resolutions that are agreed in its meetings. And this was the point that the Bush administration was making in 2002, that the UN had become a debating society and grown as ineffective as its predecessor, the League of Nations. It was the failure of the League of Nations to adequately respond to the threat of Nazism and Japanese Militarism that directly led to the second World War. Hawk