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powerclown:
you sound like some john birch society type railing at the un, with the added tweak that now the un is bureaucratic but somehow the american state is not---the un inspections team, which was there on the ground in iraq, seems to have been much more informed about what was happening there in the run up to war than any of the "intelligence" assembled by the bush team.
and with the farce that is the war in iraq, you get a glimpse of what the unilateralist world imagined by the neocons might look like--contempt for international law, such as it is; fantasies of being liberators substituting for planning; a brutal occupation that appears to be widening into a civil war with somewhere between 12 and 15000 iraqis killed (civilians and combattants). the show run by an administration more than willing to lie to the public and to itself to justify the fiasco.
i think that in many ways the un is less than optimal, but relative to a world dominated by a self-blinding single power, i prefer the un not only exist, but become more activist.
i wonder if what is being run into here is a psychological boundary that is shaped by the discourse of the right.
faced with choosing between a conservative worldview and facts that do not fit, you seem more than willing to twist the latter to preserve the former.
often talking with conservatives is like talking with old trotskyites, except that the conservatives are more frightening, both because they are closer to actual power and because they rationalize their ideology as pragmatic. but the behaviours that i see are typically doctrinaire responses to dissonance.
not sure how much further to push this, given the parameters of debate in a politics board. so here i will stop.
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