>>Any country who believes a Security Council resolution is passed strictly, or even mostly, due to the self-interest of countries passing that resolution should certainly ignore it. If the U.S. and it's allies were to pass a resolution tomorrow about Iran that served
only their self-interest, I wouldn't fault Iran for ignoring it.
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>>Each resolution should be viewed on its merits alone, not the political agenda of those voting for or against it.
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>So, resolutions are obviously not worth the paper they were written on. Then, it's completely OK that Hezbollah didn't disarm.
This is what is known as a straw man argument.
If you would rather not directly answer the question I posed earlier, that's fine:
So it's your contention that every U.N. Security Council resolution is a good one, based on sound reasoning, and not in fact influenced by each country's own interests?
Chris McCandless
Red Sky Software