It's becoming more and more irrelevant, and if we wage a war without Iraq WITHOUT a 2nd U.N. resolution (which may very well happen), and win (which is extremely likely), than the U.N. may be exposed as all but entirely useless. Personally, I feel it's time that the U.S. pulls out of the U.N. and forms its own multi-nation committe set up to handle diplomatic issues, because the U.N. just does NOT cut it anymore. It hasn't for some time now.
So why is it that so many Americans who view the UN as "useless" want to use the violation of UN-declared rulings against as the primary reason for invading? Don't get me wrong, I think the UN veered into "aimless-ville" within a few years of the Cold War ending...I just enjoy the delicious irony...
You can divide that group into two factions.
Those who, for whatever (naive) reason, still place value in the U.N., and thus don't want to do jack squat without their okay.
And then there's the faction to which I belong. This faction doesn't really give a shit about the U.N., or who violates what resolution. We're just using the violations as an excuse so that the nations around the world who fall into the first faction's mindset will go along with what we want. In this case, military action.
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