...there will be no trolley-car accidents.
I suppose one analog to this statement is the position that in a world with an effective United Nations, there will be no human-rights violations (with the presumed exception of allowing Ben Affleck to continue appearing in feature films).
The point of this initial post (Hi, Mom!), aside from quenching the vast worldwide thirst for yet another underinformed know-it-all's haphazard attempt at marshalling political argument, is to point out one of the subtle costs of retaining the cluster-boof (expletive modified just in case Mom actually is reading) at Turtle Bay. Obviously, there is no comparable organization that could serve to defend the oppressed, and to the extent that the UN is used instead as an exercise in tyranny masquerading as democracy, the oppressed go undefended. Or bayoneted in gymnasia, depending on the individual whims of the asymmetrically aggrieved.
Ergo, in the post-9/11, post-Bali, post-Madrid, post-Beslan world, when the simplisme of the Cowboy Doctrine is maligned in ivory towers the world over, I respectfully submit that the dot of the discredited UN should be connected with the dot underlying the nascent perception (see Podhoretz, Norman, and not just for his fantastic hair) that force is the only current option in the war on terror.
- Moishe Potemkin
Posted by MoisheP at September 6, 2004 09:33 PMWhat?
Posted by: Greg at September 8, 2004 09:38 AM