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How the League of Nations ended up as debris
(Robert Fisk, The Independent, 05 October 2002)
So George Bush Jnr is now an expert on the League of Nations, is he? Across America, he's been telling the folks that the United Nations is in danger of becoming no more than the old pre-Second World War organisation. . . . He might find that the League failed the world because of the same cynicism and disregard for morality by the major powers that the United States shows today. . . . The Americans wanted no part of the League. The future superpower, whose influence for peace would have been so beneficial to the world – and whose growing economic and military might could have made Hitler revise his plans – turned its back on the League. . . . Now Bush Jnr implies that the UN will also be debris if it doesn't come to heel and follow America's demand to invade Iraq. He wants to use it for his project of "regime change" – which will change the map of the Middle East, produce a tide of oil wealth for US companies and reduce Israel's enemies to impotence. We are supposed to believe that this is about weapons of mass destruction – and forget that the US sold botulinum toxin, anthrax and vials of West Nile virus to Iraq between 1985 and 1989. For most of that time, Iraq was fighting Iran – a war which the UN had tried to end. . . . For it was the cynicism and arrogance of the major powers that destroyed it – just as America can destroy the UN today.

posted by LoZo 5:13 PM