Sorry, I meant police-like action of arrest and delivery of ObL to some international court, not the Orwellian "Police Action" of Korea, which was a war. Good point. And for the Taliban, as you suggest, a brokering role.
-Chip
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pollak" <mpollak at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 7:41 PM Subject: Re: After they win...
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> On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Chip Berlet wrote:
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> > I do not support priapic US-run military overreaction, but somewhat
> > like Doug Henwood, I support a UN-run police action.
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> You mean like Korea?
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> The UN has no capacity to wage war. It can only give its seal of approval
> to wars undertaken by states -- as it has here.
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> It is however exactly the right instrument for attempting to broker the
> formation of a new government among competing factions, both internal and
> external. And if it accomplishes that hugely difficult task here, which it
> might, it will be an enormous and salutary expansion of its mandate.
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> Michael
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