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The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.
- Conor Cruise O'Brien

What endures rogue totalitarian regimes to the UN is that it legitimizes, illegitimate rogue regimes. That is why it can't work to the benefit of Democratic republics and why its failures are so aggregious.
Posted by myron at October 20, 2002 04:22 AM
Maybe you'll find that the 'democratic' countries you speak of aren't that much better than the despots you despise. Especially in the way they are happily selective in arming one then trying to remove him when he falls out of favour with them.
Posted by Hiroshi at December 5, 2002 09:39 AM









