tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090403.post5796048808532326333..comments2008-08-30T14:16:47.175-06:00y-intercepthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03389285761013186443noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090403.post-79116360831230929012008-08-30T14:16:00.000-06:002008-08-30T14:16:00.000-06:00I wish the Bush Administration had spent the post 9/11 moral capital on reforming the UN, and not the invasion of Iraq. We had inklings of the Oil for Food bribery going on. <BR/><BR/>If done correctly, we could have pressed the case that ideological corruption of the UN was causing it to fail at its primary mission ... peacekeeping.<BR/><BR/>Of course that tact would have been as big a gamble as invading Iraq. After all the intelligentsia likes it corruption.y-intercepthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03389285761013186443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090403.post-49985617263697157452008-08-28T21:31:00.000-06:002008-08-28T21:31:00.000-06:00Desert Storm ended when and how it did because of strong international and U.N pressure. It had much to do with international relations, and very little to do with what the president at the time felt was right.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04486513311176687085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090403.post-52754203425493895202008-08-27T20:47:00.000-06:002008-08-27T20:47:00.000-06:00"For those of you who are into definitions. Withdrawing your forces when you are losing is called "surrender." Withdrawing forces after winning is called "victory.""<BR/><BR/>Pitch perfect, as they say.Cameronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06016275707476655364noreply@blogger.com