Hi Ho, Hi Ho, Back to UN We Go!
I'm not sure it offers much hope for improving much of anything, but I'm very curious how Rush, O'Reilly and the other UN-haters will spin this one. Of course, if it weren't for our veto, the UN could just decide to do what it did the last time a country in the Gulf region was illegally invaded--bomb the crap out of us for a month, force us to withdraw, then sanction us for twelve years.
Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office says the Pentagon will have to reduce the size of our forces in Iraq, no matter what.
I keep thinking of the current situation in terms of chess. What really matters at any point in time is the reality on the board, not what grand or less-than-grand schemes led to that reality. You may still be pursuing checkmate using a killer knight fork five moves after your opponent took your last knight. Your friend, who hasn't been following the game, walks in and says "Dude--you've got nothing! You're beat! Give it up!" But not only have you been devoted to your grand strategy during the course of this game, but for twelve years previously. You've dreamed and drooled over the possibility of facing this opponent, thought about little else. You've cheated and lied to get the opportunity. And for a while there things seemed to be going well. So ignoring the reality on the board, which is bad and getting worse by the minute, you cling to your pathetic hopes.
And I won't pretend to be some phony patriot hoping this all comes out well for Bush. To me, his humiliation is absolutely necessary for the future good of the US and the world. I hope it is accomplished with a minimum of bloodshed, but if Bush isn't humiliated, and soon, there will be no end to the bloodshed until the last of us has died. I want Bush humiliated so badly that when President Kucinich turns him over to the International Criminal Court in 2005 we'll have 99% of Americans approving. :-)
Hopefully, this crawling back to the UN is a start on that humiliation.
I'm not sure it offers much hope for improving much of anything, but I'm very curious how Rush, O'Reilly and the other UN-haters will spin this one. Of course, if it weren't for our veto, the UN could just decide to do what it did the last time a country in the Gulf region was illegally invaded--bomb the crap out of us for a month, force us to withdraw, then sanction us for twelve years.
Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office says the Pentagon will have to reduce the size of our forces in Iraq, no matter what.
I keep thinking of the current situation in terms of chess. What really matters at any point in time is the reality on the board, not what grand or less-than-grand schemes led to that reality. You may still be pursuing checkmate using a killer knight fork five moves after your opponent took your last knight. Your friend, who hasn't been following the game, walks in and says "Dude--you've got nothing! You're beat! Give it up!" But not only have you been devoted to your grand strategy during the course of this game, but for twelve years previously. You've dreamed and drooled over the possibility of facing this opponent, thought about little else. You've cheated and lied to get the opportunity. And for a while there things seemed to be going well. So ignoring the reality on the board, which is bad and getting worse by the minute, you cling to your pathetic hopes.
And I won't pretend to be some phony patriot hoping this all comes out well for Bush. To me, his humiliation is absolutely necessary for the future good of the US and the world. I hope it is accomplished with a minimum of bloodshed, but if Bush isn't humiliated, and soon, there will be no end to the bloodshed until the last of us has died. I want Bush humiliated so badly that when President Kucinich turns him over to the International Criminal Court in 2005 we'll have 99% of Americans approving. :-)
Hopefully, this crawling back to the UN is a start on that humiliation.
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