From Strick--
---"the UN is irrelevant [as in so many things]...."
"....To induce the US to bring in more troops, and to scare the fainthearted UN away...."
    If ever there was corroboration of the fist statement in my last posting requires, then here it is.   Strick---tell us all; do you believe that the US should not take any part in world affairs other than in furtherance of its own perceived interests? Be aware that if such a belief is anything like general in the USA , the enmity of MOST of the world is guaranteed. No nation or individual has the divine right to impose their way on any other society or individual.
Democracy is a word thrown around with gay abandon by some of our leaders today. Trouble is, they don't appear to get the meaning any more than Osama does!