We're on the road to Baghdad - Mark Steyn

National Post ^ | 7 Feb 2003 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

Steyn Alert

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Or in Freeper terms:"Hold muh Styn Alert"

[rudypoot]

Ping for the Steyn list

[xJones]

Thanks for the Steyn article.

For most of the participants in yesterday's meeting, the UN is not a reflection of geopolitical power but a substitute for it, a means by which the Lilliputians can tie down the Texan Gulliver.

That's it, and Powell's talk meant so little that the leading responders had their speeches written out in advance. The U.N. truly is going the way of the old League.

[Bahbah]

"The U.N. truly is going the way of the old League"

Taking a line from the Beatles, let it be.

[Lurker]

That is a very good thing.

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[Pokey78]

Thanks!

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[JohnHuang2]

Thanks, friend ;^)

[JohnHuang2]

Mark Steyn MEGA PING!!!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Stefan Stackhouse]

UN = League of Nations II, RIP

Same fate, for the same reason, done in by the same nations.

[JohnHuang2]

More than welcome, friend

[Dog Gone]

I think the most interesting thing about this is not the decision by the UN to become irrelevant, but the willingness of France to dissolve NATO in the process.

The implications of this are staggering. A schism will run through the EU, with the Axis of Weasel on one side, and most of the rest of Europe on the other.

Turkey will abandon its hopes to get in the EU because of France's unwillingness to commit NATO troops to protect that fellow NATO nation from Saddam.

This is going to be extremely interesting to watch, and I'm not quite sure what it's going to look like afterward.

[The Great Satan]

Before anybody gets too excited: Mark Steyn: Pencil in Iraq for this August

[nicmarlo]

Excellent article for your perusal!

[aculeus]

Bump.

[RobFromGa]

The U.S., Britain, Australia, Italy, Spain and their other allies -- a category that does not, alas, include Canada -- are past that stage of the debate. Resolution 1441, painstakingly negotiated syllable by syllable by Mr. Powell and his duplicitous opposite number in the Quai d'Orsay, was never about Saddam. It was about the UN. The choice is: Put Saddam out of business, or put yourselves out of business. To judge from their reactions yesterday, the Security Council members still don't quite get it.

Just Brilliant. I sure wish I could write (think) like that myself.

The UN is irrelevant. It cannot work, even if it wanted to. Because the UN is nothing. It is merely a collection of countries, all very different.

It cannot work because it allows uncivilized countries not only to belong, but to vote, chair committees (see: Syria- Human Rights, Iraq- Disarmament).

The UN is unworkable as an Enforcement mechanism, it is only valid as a discussion and debating and negotiating society.

[RobFromGa]

This is going to be extremely interesting to watch, and I'm not quite sure what it's going to look like afterward.

I wonder where Germany will end up in the end?

[dennisw]

When Saddam's skeletons come tumbling out of the post-liberation closet, it will not be possible to claim, "Quelle surprise! If only we'd known!" The French have intelligence services, too. When the Americans and British say "This is what we know," the subtext is: The French and the Russians know at least some of this stuff, too. They just don't think it matters.