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Originally posted by spacefreak: Yup. Besides, the UN should handle this issue. Isn't it ironic that the pro-Saddam crowd complained when the US exhausted its patience with the UN Security Council and chose to disarm Saddam w/ its own coalition, and yet those same people complain that the US is not doing enough with regards to N. Korea. Let the friggin UN handle N. Korea. |
I thought the UN was irrelevant and spineless?
What we complained about was that the US assured us Diplomacy would work with NK (which actually has weapons and threatened to use them pre-emptively) but couldn't wait to declare diplomacy dead and give Iraq the smack-down.
It's the double-standard we objected to. And it's not just "lefties". That double standard has been cited by critics of the Bush Doctrine all over the world, especially in the Arab would.
You don't fight the perception of a double standard and of being a bully by using a double standard and being a bully.
By the way, NK hasn't been quiet lately. It's just been ignored.