Well Junkyard, you can always pick and choose the best bits to support arguments and conveniently dismiss the other bits, but that doesn’t neessarily reflect a true image. Russia and China are both extremely cruel and savage regimes not much better than Assad and all the other dictator cronies.
How are we going to deal with other nations in issues such as this without any influence – and whether you like ior not influence only exists because of military strength and the threat that we could deploy it. By not voting to even agree to the principle of using force in the face of evidence that Assad deployed the weapons we have now excluded ourselves from the negotiating table and have no influence or credabiltiy. We are now merely witnesses to the worst post war atrocity and powerless to prevent a re-occurance.
Anyway, its all academic anyway. The weapons inspectors currenlty on the ground have no mandate nor the expertise to determine who it was who deployed the weapons, so it is a pre-determined conclusion that they will confirm chemical weapons were deployed, with no view or opinion on who deployed them. The UN and the rest of the worl will not get the conclusive proof they are looking for about who deployed the weapons. Assad, China and Russia knew this. The merry dance with the UN has begun. The UN wont issue a resolution, the US will go in by themselves. THis reminds me of Neville Chamberlin stepping off the aircraft waving his bit of paper going on about ‘peace in our time’, patting himself on his back after turning his back on the Czecoslovakians and sacrificing them to the Nazi cause. That didn’t turn out too well in the end.
