Posted by
JDComments on Sunday, October 15, 2006 10:55:06 AM
The NY Times today headlined the UN resolutions adopted against North Korea as the toughest since the Korean War [for those who don't know, the only reason the UN approved that war was that the USSR boycotted the Security Council Meeting, and thus didn't exercise their veto], and held that impotent organization up to accolades as it went into detail about the strictures imposed. If you continued to read however [the Times usually gets to the important stuff later in the article, sometimes much later], you will find that all military action has been excluded as an option, and that China, the only country that really matters when it comes to trade with North Korea, is indicating it will not enforce the sanctions. What remains is the best we could hope for from the UN, but probably nothing more than useless window dressing, giving cover to those who want to say diplomacy worked, while postponing the true day of reckoning. And the Times gets the chance to hail another of the icons of Liberalism, the United Nations, which, like the newspaper itself, reminds me of the lines from Macbeth about sound and fury signifying nothing.