5 posts tagged “security council”
Is it Georgian genocide perpetrated on break-away South Ossetia or Russian aggression to annex South Ossetia and send a message to Georgia? OR perhaps Russia intends to take all of strategically located Georgia to thumb there noses at America. OR it is a combination of both: the Georgian military attempting to assert their national sovereignty while killing pro-Russian civilians and Russia using that as an excuse to annex all of Georgia.
Anyway here is the latest I have read:
JRH 8/10/08
So if Omar al-Bashir (President of Sudan) is actually indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) by Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, then what?
If the Three-Panel group of International judges puts out a warrant for the butcher of Christians (Southern Sudan) and Black African Muslims (Darfur), will al-Bashir turn himself in for trial? Only if he is a moron.
There is a difference between being moronic and evil; al-Bashir is evil.
The only way to force a political leader out of leadership is by invasion. Will the United Nations Security Council order such a military action for the genocidal al-Bashir? Heck no! The Security Council did nothing to remove the Butcher of Baghdad and the Security Council is doing nothing about Hezbollah slowly usurping the democratically elected government of Lebanon. And the Security Council is doing nothing about Hezbollah’s surrogates Syria and Iran which are financing and arming Hezbollah.
And talking of Iran, the Security Council is doing zilch to prevent the psycho-Shi’ites of Iran from attaining weapons grade uranium (or plutonium or whatever it’s called) to make nuke WMD’s.
So hurray for Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo; however if there is only bark and no bite, al-Bashir will keep killing millions of his citizens with impunity.
JRH 7/14/08
Apparently “political correctness” has scored a diplomatic victory for Iran. The key: Have lots of oil then thumb your political nose at International (i.e. useless U.N.) EVERY SINGLE TIME a Resolution is put forth calling Terminate to terminate their nuclear program.
Here is Decision 08 quoting the Chicago Tribune:
Iran appears to have solved most of its technological problems and is beginning to enrich uranium on a far larger scale than before. Tehran may well have passed the critical point, at which its scientists have mastered the technological feat of keeping thousands of delicate centrifuges spinning at terrific speeds. If so, that means all the assumptions about when might be capable of enriching enough uranium to build a bomb would need to be recalculated. ’s ability to build a bomb — estimated by various intelligence officials to be five to 10 years off — is likely to be moved up.
Here’s the math: International inspectors reportedly found that Iran has about 1,300 centrifuges running. If the Iranians can sustain that progress, their next milestone comes when they’ve got 3,000 running. At that point, nuclear experts said, would be able to produce enough highly enriched uranium for a bomb within nine months or so.
"We believe they pretty much have the knowledge about how to enrich,” International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei told The New York Times. “From now on, it is simply a question of perfecting that knowledge. People will not like to hear it, but that’s a fact.”
No, we don’t like to hear it. But the sooner that fact is acknowledged, the sooner the Security Council can drop the pretense that the slow ratcheting of sanctions will force the Iranians to freeze their enrichment efforts. Incremental pressure won’t budge . The only sanctions with even the faintest hope of stopping the Iranians are also the ones that would require the greatest international cooperation and cause the most economic pain worldwide.
Embargoing Iran’s oil exports, for instance, would stagger ’s already shaky economy. But the embargo would likely spring huge leaks even as pump prices rocketed. The other sensitive Iranian target: gasoline. Iran has huge oil reserves but it lacks sufficient refinery capacity and must import more than a third of its gasoline, mainly from Europe and India. A gas embargo could devastate much of the country’s industry, if it were enforced. Such dramatic measures could also backfire, rallying support for the ruling mullahs.
The next UN Security Council deadline for to ignore falls next week.
The global community generally condemns the Bush Administration wish to prevent WMD quality nuclear enrichment from occurring in Iran. Well really I guess the global community does not complain about the idea of prevention, rather they denounce the Bush Administration call for harsh sanctions or military intervention to prevent a nuclear Iran.
The global community (particularly EU) did not learn the lesson of Neville Chamberlain: dealing with devils only stalls the inevitable. The “Peace in our time” pitch is a devilish lie to build an armament to achieve the political goals stated in public and in writings.
Here is a Jewish perspective from Arutz Sheva.
As expected, Iran is thumbing its Mohammedan superiority complex at the U.N. Security Council. Not only is Iran ignoring the Resolution Sanctions, Ahmadinejad responded with a veiled threat that the West would pay for meddling in Iran’s uranium enrichment program. Also Iran is exploring leaving the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), as if Iran cooperated or listened to the IAEA anyway.
Because of Russia and China the Security Council is committed to diplomacy and civilian thumb screwing to attempt to make Iran forsake a nuclear ambition that will certainly lead to Weapons of Mass destruction. By the time America and Europe realize that only military solutions will convince Iran it may be too late to engage in military action that will make a soft difference as opposed to a nightmare that will make Iraq look like a picnic.
