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To: TimF who wrote (195910)	8/7/2006 9:58:47 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<the official fig leaf> The official fig leaf as you call it is an organization with members. A subset of those members forms the Security Council. I think that the billions of people who are not Americans would be surprised (perhaps not now, but before the treachery of the current Administration), to learn that the interests, views and legitimate rights of all the people on earth outside the US don't matter much. Well, those billions of people out there have their own view of reality -- and their view of reality is that the United States, a country once seen as a role model for the rule of law and human rights, is now just a country run by a bunch of thugs who ride roughshod over whomever they please, with or without your fig leaf. You conclude that this is fine because we are acting in our own interests. It is patently obvious that the unilateral path we have taken has blown up in our own face. When 9/11 hit us there was an outpouring of solidarity around the world. Next time, and there will no doubt be a next time, expect most people in the world to conclude we had it coming to us. We made the world a more dangerous, ugly and less human place -- but of course working with the rest of the world for peace is just a throw away fig leaf to you, so march on to the next war. Please send your children and your relatives to be among the first to die. Because the reality is, the US made a horrendous mistake when it treated the UN as a disposable fig leaf.