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To: tejek who wrote (296161)7/21/2006 2:35:59 PM
From: steve harris  Respond to of 1573415
 
Bolton agreed the UN is a failure but remains an institution to use.

But to make your point, you ignored these parts:

Well, I think what can happen is that we can use the Security Council as a way to accomplish the objective of bringing democracy to the Lebanese people.

Yes. Well, the U.N. has been involved in Lebanon for 28 years. And that gives you some measure of how unsuccessful it's been.

But in the past couple of years, because of — not what happens in New York — but because of what's happened in the region, there has been pressure to get Syria out.

What we need to do now is move to get that 1559 framework fully implemented, get the Syrians out completely. And that means have them stop...

What we need to do is to use this forum to advance American interests. And it's hard there. There's no question about it.