Why would the US sign on to a resolution that counters everything it stands for in the war on terror?
Anyway, to steal a phrase from the gay activist lobby, if we had been "loud and proud" in our support of Israel from the beginning, Olmert may very well have done things in a different manner. I agree that Olmert is a bit of a coward, but I do think he wanted to do the right thing. He was just too scared of the international pressure (and pressure within his own political party) that comes from doing the right thing. His personality reminds me a lot of Justice Kennedy. We knew who we were dealing with when the war first started. I think we should have tailored our public responses to provide Olmert with the support he needed to justify a tough war.
In any event, I stand by comments I've made elsewhere that we need to get out of the UN. It does us very little good and every time we try to make nice with Russia, France, or China, they just come back to stab us in the back.
HE's brand new. We couldn't know what he would do. We gave them every opportunity to take the fight to the enemy. He bungled it. He's an embarassment to his people and the world. I could just spit, I'm so disgusted. You don't leave your people behind. You don't start a war and then accept a cease-fire from without. THis was a WASTE. Nothing gained.