>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.
>>
>> 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?
Because it supports efforts, short of sanctions, to stop Iran from getting the bomb. Many countries do, and not only because the US government (and what's with the State Department? that's one of the wussier branches of government) wants it that way.
Doug