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Will We Be UN-Wise Again? By Michael A. Minton 

Boy, a lot of the rhetoric we have been hearing lately regarding Iran sounds grossly like the rhetoric we heard about Iraq from 1992-2003. “We know they have, or are attempting to acquire, nuclear weapon capability.” And, “We have to garner international support to metaphorically beat this radical, madman-led regime into submission.” How about this: “Let’s refer them to the U.N. Security Council.”

Will the United States EVER learn? How many years did we spend placating the international community by going along with resolution after resolution passed by the U.N., giving Saddam Hussein chance after chance to comply with “international demands” that he allow transparency as regards weapons of mass destruction?

In reality, Saddam was deceiving us on many levels while we played the role of Nero. It turns out that, even as we placed “sanctions” on the rogue state, Hussein was busy making deals with France, Russia and even the very top levels of the so-called United Nations in “oil-for-food” deals. Yet, we fiddled as Rome burned.

And what of these alleged allies of ours? While we were busy playing nice with (supposedly formerly Communist) Russia, they were busy selling WMD to Saddam, and, as it turns out, helping him get rid of the WMD, and the evidence that it was ever there, in the months prior to the U.S.-led invasion in March, 2003.

And that great ally France, whose butts we have saved more times than THEY can recall, blocked our efforts at the U.N. at every turn. Remember the O’Reilly boycott? Or ‘Freedom Fries?’ You would think that for a country that would now be speaking German and greeting one another with “Heil Hitler” if not for the United States, the least they could do would be to give us the nod, if not the troops, to take care of business.

Yet here we go again. Another madman, another rogue state, another danger of nuclear weapons. And what are we doing? “Fiddling” with the impotent United Nations…unbelievable. The United Nations, what a useless, multi-billion dollar piece of corruption that place is. I would truly like to see the U.S. just totally get out of the U.N., and see the U.N. just totally get out of the U.S. I think as far as the U.N. is concerned, impotency is contagious.

There is a glimmer of hope, though. John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., told a meeting of AIPAC members on Sunday that, "failure by the Security Council to act on this matter would be a highly detrimental abrogation of the duties it is charged with under the UN Charter…the Security Council must take due note that failure to act in a timely manner and with seriousness of purpose will do lasting damage to the credibility of the Council."

I cannot help wondering, though, if the U.N. Security Council even has any credibility. I’m sure that Kofi and company couldn’t care less, but for what it’s worth, they have zero credibility with me. I’m sure Ambassador Bolton will bring that to their attention first thing this morning. I can hear it now, “Hey, there’s this conservative American blogger, Mike Minton--Mr. Right Opinion he calls himself--who says you guys have zero credibility with him.” I’m sure that will get their butts in gear.

Anyway, I mentioned a glimmer of hope a moment ago. That glimmer was not the Security Council. The glimmer is that Bolton told the group that the United States is not going to rely on the U.N. alone to deal with the Iranian issue. He assured them that the U.S. is prepared to take other measures to resolve the problem and ensure that Iran does not obtain nuclear weaponry. Unfortunately, one of those measures included the old phrase “international sanctions.”

International sanctions is not a bad theory, and may even be effective if they are not overseen by the U.N., which has proven itself incapable of enforcing legitimate sanctions programs. If international sanctions are to be employed, it must be done outside of the scope of the United Nations.

However, given the current state of Russian relations with rogue nations as of late, one has to wonder how effective sanctions would really be. After all, Russia helped Iraq in its efforts to obtain, and then dispose of WMD. More recently, they have been cozying up to the newly-elected terrorist regime Hamas, of the Palestinian Authority. And they have been queerly trying to make arrangements to enrich uranium for Iran. Are we to trust them to not help Iran out if some of the world decided to impose sanctions on the God-forsaken country?

I think that, in the end, and as ominous as it sounds and undoubtedly will be, it will end up being left to the United States, in conjunction with Israel (who, due to recent concessions to the Palestinians, has had its own resolve called into question), to try to stop Teheran’s nuclear ambitions with precision air strikes. Once this happens, only God knows what the consequences will be.

Will there be an all-out war...Muslims versus non-Muslims? Maybe so. I would put those odds at about 70/30...with the 70 being not. However, if Iran acquires nuclear capability, there is a 100% chance that they will use those weapons against the United States and our (true) allies.

To me, the choice is clear.

Mike Minton

http://mrrightopinion.blogstream.com

KY Coordinator-Stop The ACLU Coalition

http://stoptheaclu.org

mike.ky@stoptheaclu.org

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