Axis of evil

[Hubris Boy]

originally posted by tw
Throughtout the world, too many are making valid claims that the US now acts unilaterally. Unilaterally? Yes, George Jr has so soured another world opinion of the US. That is also what Sec of State Powell has warned. Did you read the NY Times article cited elsewhere. This administration is actually considering unilateral action against Iraq!

Shocking! Imagine the effrontery! How dare the government of a Great Power act alone in what it perceives to be its own interests? (I'm not saying whether or not I believe that taking a poke at Iraq is a good idea... we'll save that for another thread.)

So... what's so bad about unilateral action? Sometimes, the alternatives are worse. The cripplingly multilateral European Union certainly did a splendid job of preventing the atrocities in Yugoslavia, didn't they? (Interesting to note that it's mainly American troops who are still on the job there.) What has the League of Arab States done to check the activities of militant extremists in their little corner of the world? How much success did ASEAN have preventing the recent festivities in East Timor or Burma? (oops... I meant Myanmar) The policy failures of that most impotent and multilateral of institutions, the United Nations, are too many and varied to mention here.

Human Rights? George, Jr in Middle East eyes violates that daily with his support and encouragment of one defined by the entire world as an enemy of Human Rights - Ariel Sharon. Sharon could only do so with George Jr's approval - as far as the entire Middle East is concerned.

You're preaching to the choir here... my loathing for America's policy toward Israel is exceeded only by my loathing for Teletubbies. But, again I ask, what's different about George? The next president who has the spine to tell Israel (and the Zionist lobby in America) to go piss up a rope will be the first one.