Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Carrol Cox wrote:
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> >The Security Council is mostly, until China & Russia get some
> >backbone, an arm of the those thugs in the U.S. state department.
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> You've got almost as exaggerated a view of US power as George Bush.
> The US has little leverage over Russian foreign policy, and Russia
> could easily veto anything in the Security Council it wanted.
Agreed. It _could_. Why doesn't it?
Carrol