In article , Andrew Barss wrote:
CW wrote:
: The UN has a long history of not doing anything about anything.

Hmmm. Wasn't it a UN coalition that threw Hussein out of Kuwait?

When they do
: decide to do something, it's always "hey US, take care of this ".

Yawn.

: There was
: nothing preemptive about Iraq. It was enforcement.


No, it wasn't. Enforcement of what, exactly? The UN resolutions?
The US can't enforce a UN resolution. Only the UN can.

Obviously incorrect, on many grounds.

1) The UN has no armed force with which it can enforce anything. UN forces are
contributed by its member nations, and it is by the armed forces of the
individual member nations that UN resolutions can be enforced.

2) The UN has repeatedly demonstrated its total inability to enforce anything.
This was most recently evident with respect to the multiple resolutions which
followed the 1991 Gulf War cease-fire.

3) The US obviously can, and did, enforce those resolutions.

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