Ron Davies - 19 Nov 05 - 07:40 AM

"If you think that authorizing force is the same as declaring war, you are sadly mistaken" - irrelevant semantics.

The UN has authority to cede? That comes as a bit of a surprise. If it has any authority at all it has in the sixty years of its existence been very parsimonious in the exercising of it, to the detriment of that organisations reputation and the poor and oppressed of this world.