"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Neither Left nor Right

Austin Bay, who I found via Jim Dunnigan's site
(suppose I should find link, see prior posts)

Good piece on Iraq, Iran, Darfur, intervention, unilateral/UN

"Iran’s mullahs are demonstrating once again the limitations of UN multi-lateralism– sharp minds on the left and right recognize this. A lot of people staked their hopes for peace and a better future on UN multilateralism. The Iranian situation also illustrates the limits of US unilateralism — how many times can the world’s superpower go it alone? Lefty neo-interventionists are certainly seeing the limits of UN multilateralism vis a vis Darfur– and a few of them understand the hypocrisy of damning intervention in Iraq while calling for intervention in Sudan/Darfur. The so-called neo-cons –at leas those who lack military experience– have learned that war is never a cakewalk."

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