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Do you want more proof that the UN is impotent?

The U.N. Security Council passed a weakened resolution Monday giving Iran until Aug. 31 to suspend uranium enrichment or face the threat of economic and diplomatic sanctions.

Sounds good so far, right?  Iran has been given chance after chance to come clean with their suspected nuclear weapons program.  Instead of caving in to world opinion, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad consistently thumbs his nose at the UN.  And why shouldn’t he?  He knows Russia and China will not support sanctions against Iran.  I know what China’s problem is, it’s us, the United States.  The Chinese military sees the US as their future enemy, particularly since the Chinese want to extend their influence over all of the Far East.  This includes the democracies of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.  The Chinese will do anything they can to embarrass the US, even if it hurts them in the short haul.

Russia on the other hand, I do not understand.  President Putin has everything to gain from a healthy relationship with the US and nothing to lose.  Russia has been battling terrorism for many years in Chechnya and Iran is a prime sponsor of terror.  So I can’t figure out Putin’s angle.

As it stands now, neither China nor Russia are will to confront Iran.  Until these two countries stop blocking everything the US tries to accomplish, the UN will continue to be dysfunctional.

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