That's one headline you're just never going to see, unless I succeed Kofi Annan as Secretary General of the World's biggest organised hypocrisy - the United Nations!
So I'm not in the least surprised to read that foreign ministers of world powers have failed to agree on a unified position on how to tackle the Iranian nuclear crisis, after a meeting in New York. A senior state department official said prospects for an agreement this week on a UN Security Council resolution were "not substantially good".
Ahem...that's diplomatic language for "We have no chance of reaching any sort of decent agreement"!
As I have frequently pointed out, the United Nations is institutionally unable to deal with terror regimes for the simple reason that its membership includes many terror regimes and it sympathises with terror regimes. To think that China and Russia would support any substantive resolution that would put REAL pressure on the Mullahs is fantasy politics. And that is what is now being acted out.
And talking of fantasy politics, I see that the NEW and exciting British Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, has made an impact STRAIGHTAWAY by saying that she preferred to make clear that no-one was discussing military action, and that that language was far more welcome to the Americans.
Yeah., way to go Margaret. Forget Shock and Awe - we're going to use syntax and grammar to rock the casbah in downtown Nukesville, Iran. Ahmadinejad was be quaking in his boots.
With laughter!
Of course Beckett won't rock the boat. She knows better. She's been put in her job because Blair wants to dance to his Daddy (President Bush) and get a fishie (the "special relationship" between the British ruling class and Yankee imperialism) in his little dishie.
Dosen't matter if we all go up in a great big nuclear mushroom cloud.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
Posted by: Martin W. Barnes | May 09, 2006 at 09:58 AM
were going to bomb them no matter what the UN says period!
Posted by: The Troll | May 09, 2006 at 03:39 PM
Troll,
For each conventional bomb you drop prepare to lose at least a hundred soldiers in Iraq. Glad you find their lives so worthless. And for each nuclear bomb you drop prepare for ten years of terror attacks on the US. Remember as the IRA once said to Margaret Thatcher, they only need to be lucky ONCE. You need to be lucky EVERY TIME.
Posted by: Adrian | May 09, 2006 at 07:23 PM
We don't have to use nukes. Iran is going to have to be dealt with whether you like it or not Adrian. We will not submit to Islam - - we got our final warning you know. The letter that the beautiful and intelligent Ms. Rice dismissed so quickly.
It's not surprising what the UN has come up with. Big fat nothing as usual. We have to go through these STUPID motions to keep people like you happy Adrian. That never works either because you're never happy with any decision that doesn't require kissing some moslem's ass. Bush is quite moderate when compared with millions of Americans. He's been a bit TOO moderate many of us are starting to think. Thank your lucky stars for Bush!
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