Protagoras: Going to war at the beheast of world government?
optimistically_conservative: The UN asked us to go to war with Iraq? Strange, I thought the argument was we unilaterally went to war with Iraq without the world's permission, but did it based on the statutory powers granted by Congress
If having the United States running around the globe enforcing U.N. resolutions isn't a world government, then what is?
>sarcasm<Our government?>/sarcasm<
The US led the war against Iraq in 1991, the US negotiated the cease fire directly with Iraq on the battlefield, the US codified that cease fire in the UNSCR 678, the US kept the lid on Iraq for the last 12 years.
We weren't running around the globe enforcing the UN's resolutions, we were driving into Baghdad against the UN's wishes enforcing our own resolutions we pushed through the UN.
The truth is, concerning Iraq, we used the UN for diplomatic cover while pursuing our agenda, and when they balked, we dropped them and went in anyway.
You will find that I am much more sympathetic to the concern that the US government is currently the world governing body than worrying if the US government is subordinating itself to the UN at this time.
That should be fairly evident, although the precedent it sets opens us up to the charges of hypocrisy for not running around enforcing the UN resolutions we don't like. Fine, see my previous point above.
<sarcasm>Our government?</sarcasm>