[U.S. Secretary of State Rice] wants the other 14 nations of the U.N. Security Council, many of whom are deeply distrustful of U.S. intentions in the Mideast, to sign onto her plan in a matter of just days.Just what are those dastardly intentions? Free Iraqis from past and present tyranny? Give Iraqis a shot at some semblance of democracy? Neutralize a psychotic Iranian mullocracy with regional nuclear and global homicidal ambitions?
We wonder what would it take to have the members of the Security Council to express a smidgen of distrust of, say, Iran. If President Bush expressed his belief that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ were just around the corner, the world would collectively roll its eyes and write Mr. Bush off as delusional.
However, if it becomes evident that the Iranian President, Mr. Ahmadinejad and all the Iranian mullocracy believe in world chaos as an ok prelude to the imminent return of the 12th Imam, why no one would dream of marking that as grounds for distrust of the Iranians.
Nope. What we have to mistrust are U.S. intentions.
I guess.
It's almost enough to shake one's faith in the United Nations.
"U.S., Israel Start to Diverge As Casualties Mount." By Yochi j. Dreazen and Marc Champion, Wall Street Journal Online, 8/1/06 (subscription).
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