Useless Body Takes Useless Action
Don’t let other people tell you that the club of tyrants known as the United Nations is useless.
It is beyond that. It is actively harmful to freedom and democracy.
Its latest proud display of inadequacy is mooting further sanctions on Iran.
So what?
Even if China and Russia (and France – you can never take the vote of that psychotically anti-American-and-anti-British-for-saving-us-in-both-World-Wars nation for granted) agree, they’ll flout implementation, reducing the policy to worthlessness.
Sanctions are never effective. All they do is allow feeble politicians to claim that they are taking action on the issue and avoid the need to come up with anything more creative or original.
Not that my solution would be particularly innovative – just put Ahmadinejad’s and Khamenei’s heads in the way of some nice, smooth sniper bullets…
April 15th, 2009 at 21:39
I still maintain that the UN is slightly better than *no* UN. Though it might be
limit(utility)->0
if I can get all mathematical in your blog without causing a ruckus…
April 15th, 2009 at 21:48
Smitty,
Having made the fatal move from beer to gin since we parted company, this is my intellectual riposte:
No.
And, furthermore, I’m now going to sign your email address up to every porn site that I can find (before I pass out) for posting something mathematical on my site.
April 15th, 2009 at 21:48
Smitty,
Having made the fatal move from beer to gin since we parted company, this is my intellectual riposte:
No.
And, furthermore, I’m now going to sign your email address up to every porn site that I can find (before I pass out) for posting something mathematical on my site.