[lbo-talk] Re: Baghdad: 35 Murders A Day

[Paul]

Of course isn't the real issue WHICH U.N.?  After all, the U.N. is just an 
auspices - everything depends on the arrangements and policies within these 
auspices.  The precedents have a very wide range - from arranging to take 
one side of the Korean War to arrangements that were fairly hands off such 
as Cambodia).

Maybe the bumper sticker should focus on principles not auspices.

Paul

Mike Larkin writes:
>
> > The U.S. destroyed a state that permeated every
> > aspect of Iraqi life.
> > It was hard for institutions to exist outside the
> > Ba'athist
> > structure. As Boris Kagarlitsky once said of the
> > USSR, people related
> > politically to the state and not to each other.
> > Having destroyed that
> > - what's left? Christian said that one of the few
> > seriously left
> > secular parties wants the US out, but the UN in. Why
> > isn't that good
> > enough for you? You know better?
> >
> > Doug
>
>
>"U.S. Out, U.N. In."  Nice bumper sticker