[FutureRocketMan]

The reason being that China and Russia are likely to vote AGAISNT sanctions, while the US, and the two other nations(?) on the Security council will vote for sanctions. China and Russia, when sanctions come to a vote, will vote against.

[AlanGreenSpam]

Which brings up a question: In US courts, someone who has a conflict of interest will recuse themselves from a vote. (Yes, I know the US is corrupt and already have low expectations of ethical practices from them, but I’m wondering, why isn’t there any provision for disallowing votes from countries with obvious conflict of interest??) Anyone have any ideas?

Same problem during the deliberations about whether to attack Iraq: The French & Russians had large oil deals with Saddam, so, of course, the didn’t give a rat’s ass about the US’s concerns.

[raybbr]

The reason being that China and Russia are likely to vote AGAISNT sanctions, while the US, and the two other nations(?) on the Security council will vote for sanctions. China and Russia, when sanctions come to a vote, will vote against.

I kind of agree. What bothers me is that, in the past, I think Israel would have come to the US with that info and let the US work on China and Russia.

It's clear that Israel no longer has faith in the US to do the right thing.