What else do you expect the UN to do? It’s not the world police or world government. It’s just a debate forum where all the nations’ diplomats can safely talk to each other. And it does some humanitarian work. The UN’s authority only extends as far as the nations allow it to go. And the world powers sure as hell won’t give it military authority over themselves.
The UN didn’t find WMDs and reported it. It’s up to the nations what they do with that information. The rest of the developed world should have sanctioned the US. Yet many followed the US into the war like a lapdog.
Notably, Canada declined to join the invasion of Iraq, and faced a lot of criticism from the U.S. for doing so. PM Jean Cretien of the Liberal party was in charge at the time.
Mexico, France, and Germany along with others didn’t join the war either. The outage and BS about France that came out after was sad considering their long history of freedom together and the Statue of Liberty being a gift from France.
Still don’t think Freedom Fries stuck, as it’s not freedom to just go and kill people because it filled a political need.
The outage and BS about France that came out after was sad considering their long history
This shows that a century of friendship can be tossed aside if a politician can whip some uneducated oafs into a frenzy. It was an interesting early demo of weaponizing the stupid as a mob.
Yeah, unofficial word on the Canada ‘briefing’ was that the US ‘PowerPoint’ to going to war in Iraqi was a lazy and stupid presentation that didn’t impress anyone.
What else do you expect the UN to do? It’s not the world police or world government. It’s just a debate forum where all the nations’ diplomats can safely talk to each other. And it does some humanitarian work. The UN’s authority only extends as far as the nations allow it to go. And the world powers sure as hell won’t give it military authority over themselves.
The UN didn’t find WMDs and reported it. It’s up to the nations what they do with that information. The rest of the developed world should have sanctioned the US. Yet many followed the US into the war like a lapdog.
Notably, Canada declined to join the invasion of Iraq, and faced a lot of criticism from the U.S. for doing so. PM Jean Cretien of the Liberal party was in charge at the time.
Mexico, France, and Germany along with others didn’t join the war either. The outage and BS about France that came out after was sad considering their long history of freedom together and the Statue of Liberty being a gift from France.
Still don’t think Freedom Fries stuck, as it’s not freedom to just go and kill people because it filled a political need.
This shows that a century of friendship can be tossed aside if a politician can whip some uneducated oafs into a frenzy. It was an interesting early demo of weaponizing the stupid as a mob.
Yeah, unofficial word on the Canada ‘briefing’ was that the US ‘PowerPoint’ to going to war in Iraqi was a lazy and stupid presentation that didn’t impress anyone.
I wasn’t a fan of a lot of the things Chretien did, but this was definitely the right call.