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Thread #57464   Message #911479
Posted By: CarolC
16-Mar-03 - 05:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: No more human shields in Iraq
Subject: RE: BS: No more human shields in Iraq
Nope, not US, DougR.

How would you propose the U.N. enforce its resolutions "diligently," Carol C.?

Well, it would help if some countries were consistant in their zeal for enforcing UN resolutions. In this case, the US is one of the countries I'm talking about but not the only one. Some countries (such as the US) see the UN as only being obligated to enforce those resolutions that they, themselves, want enforced, and practice obstructionist tactics when the UN tries to enforce resolutions that they (countries like the US) don't like. So a little less hypocracy (actually, not a little, a LOT less hypocracy) by countries like the US would go a long way to help.

And the US could lose the mindset that UN resolutions can be enforced by violating the UN charter.