True Fionn, maybe back in those halcyon days the expectation was that the UN was actually going to do something. However, it marked the start of the slippery slope to the ultimate realisation and clear demonstration that the UN truly was a totally ineffectual talking shop fully intent on doing nothing for as long as it could get away with it.

It did not stop Clinton, ten months later advising the UNSCOM Inspection Teams to leave Iraq because he was going to unilaterally bomb it in an exercise known as "Desert Fox". At no time did he seek UN approval for this, at no time did he seek approval of either House of Representatives or the Senate, such was the Clinton Administration's measure of respect for those bodies.