Isn't it amazing? When the U.N. (60 years old this past Monday!) didn't agree with Bush he said it was a useless organization and made sure his posse started their own investigations of corruption. Now that his numbers are lower than any other Presidents in history, half of his administration is facing indictments, and his war is falling apart he actually goes to the U.N. to help stir up noise about another country he knows absolutely nothing about.
You can't have it both ways. You can't send a tool like Bolton (whose name keeps popping up in the Plame affair) to thumb your nose at the U.N. and then turn around and ask for their help. What happened to the Neo-con death cult unilateralism approach? Didn't work so well? Do you really think the world would go along with you on yet another Middle East war drum pattern?
If there are indictments in the Plame affair, I wouldn't be surprised if bombs didn't start falling... if they haven't already.
I include below the Charter of the United Nations. Yes, there is corruption, bureaucracy, and other faults in the U.N. — it is a human endeavor. Still, at its heart is this charter and it is a beautiful statement. Read this and think about the U.S. approach lately:
We the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, and for these ends to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, Have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims. Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United Nations.Posted by dmason at October 26, 2005 09:58 AM