MY point was the failure to enforce the resolutions, then demanding MORE unenforced resolutions, such as you have presented, in order to solve the problem. If China does not comply, what is the UN going to do? When Iraq did not comply, what did the UN do? And who stood to profit from Saddamn's failure to comply? Just France, Germany, Russia... The ones who prevented the UN from any meaningful action.



For all that some here say the US is in Iraq over oil, it seems to me that they would have a little concern over the present support for Iran byt those nations that will profit from Iranian oil: China comes to mind. A major reason thet the US will not take military action against Iran is the likelyhood of Chinese actions: They might not want to have their oil supply destroyed, or made radioactive.

A significant problem is that Israel, if attacked by nuclear weapons, will probably make the Middle East oil supplies unusable for everyone.
After all, when you are already destroyed, you might want to cause SOME damage to the ones who dit it, and not be overly concerned about the ones who stood by and did nothing effective to stop that destruction.