[lbo-talk] Baghdad: 35 Murders\The UN role

[Paul]

Of course I can only speculate since it is a hypothetical. The existing GA 
Resolutions don't count: since they didn't matter the U.S. didn't put 
itself out to pressure a hundred or so small states. I don't doubt what 
their conscious tells them in a non-binding vote but question is what they 
do when the crunch comes....
Perhaps a better indicator is the equivicaton and worse that we saw from 
the small states in the SC.  And I think you will find that most observers 
would expect the herd effect to be yet worse in the GA.

My main point is just that it has been a while since there was an active 
voting bloc from the Non-Aligned on this type of issue and we mustn't 
overestimate the strength of support from the 3rd world governmental elite 
these days.

Kudos to your knowledge of the GA resolutions.

Paul


>I don't see any GA Resolutions that are worse than SC Resolutions on the 
>same or related subjects.  What's bad in the bad GA Resolutions originates 
>in their reaffirmations of the bad SC Resolutions,