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i don't think the UN should pay for Iraq... but i do think Iraq is a problem that was largely created by the UN.
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JR, at this point, if you follow the UN's course of action ( or inaction) then Sadddam would be in power, 1000 americans would be sleeping at home, and the price of oil would probably be lower.
More importantly, there wouldn't be a huge new training and indoctrination lab for terrorists called "Iraq".
I am NOT a big fan of the UN in it's current form, an impotent forum for whiners and tinpot despots to make like they are really leaders, but I am a fan of having a place where all the world gets together to discuss and look for solutions. Alas, those solutions are often blocked by those who need the most solving, but there ya go.
The UN didn't create the current situation in Iraq, only Bush as his "coalition of the willing (stupid way to say only a few countries provided meaningful amounts of troops) created the mess, and they are now stuck with it. Sucking up to the UN after deed is done is, well, sucky.
Mike, likening (9/11 to pearl harbour is a HUGE stretch.
Pearl Harbour: The US was attacked by japan. I can point to Japan on a map. I have been there. I know tokyo well. I know where to find the japanese, and the US won that was specifically by dropping a really big bomb on the place where they knew the japanese were.
9/11: A small group of terrorists, detroyed a major building. These terrorists were from a number of different countries, none of which sanction their acts (although some permit and encourage it on the QT). I don't know where they are. The US doesn't know where they are. The US cannot just drop a bomb somewhere and make them surrender. You need to get each and every last one of them. In the meantime, the US has gone into a distracting "police action" in Iraq, somehow magically linked to the "war on terror"... it's only link that I can see is that it has created a nice training ground for new terrorists and taught a whole new group of muslims to enter into a Jihag against the US. The actions in Iraq have almost certain created more terrorists than it removed.
It's not a war - war is between countries, nations, peoples. There is no nation, no specific people on the other side. No one place to take out, no government to overthrough, no captial to take, no fort to take possession of, no command center to remove, nothing. This does not compute inside the US was machine. The results? Iraq - Nothing to do with Bin Ladin, nothing to do with the terrorists that committed 9/11...
Mike, if you were going to "drop the big bomb" to get rid of terrorism, where would you drop it?
Alex