Russia & China VETO US-backed Resolution on Syria

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

I'm so glad Bush is gone and we have Barrack Obama in charge. It's good to be loved and respected again in the world.

Someone remind me again why we care about civil war in some other country where what? 55 people were killed in the most recent crackdown? And what exactly is the UN supposed to do anyway?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-16890107

An Arab and Western-backed resolution condemning the violent crackdown in Syria has been vetoed at the UN Security Council by Russia and China.

They rejected the draft as "unbalanced" hours after activists accused troops of killing at least 55 people at Homs.

Western countries said the move would encourage Syria's government to continue its violent clampdown.

A BBC correspondent who entered Homs with rebels after the vote says gun and shell fire can be heard in the city.

'Craven tyrant'
The draft resolution, supported by all 13 other members of the Security Council, had adopted an Arab League call for a "Syrian-led political transition to a democratic, plural political system".

Russia said it singled out the government of President Bashar al-Assad, and did not containing measures against armed opposition groups.

[djAdvocate]

for us to complain about a Chinese veto is truly the pot calling the kettle black. anyone who misses the irony should really study the history of veto use in the UN since 1973.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

It's only that way if you fail to recognize we're the good guys.

[djAdvocate]

Feb 6, 2012 16:10:25 GMT -5 deminmaine said:

I'm so glad Bush is gone and we have Barrack Obama in charge.

Me too!

anyone who misses the irony should really study the history of veto use in the UN since 1973.

Right? Actually we can go back to the formation of the UN after WWII.

not really. we were really good until 1973. the USSR were the veto kings prior to that time.

[djAdvocate]

Feb 6, 2012 16:10:50 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

It's only that way if you fail to recognize we're the good guys.

we are only as good as our actions, Paul.

in terms of foreign policy, we have rarely been the "good guys" since WW2.

if you don't agree, i couldn't care less.

[djAdvocate]

Feb 6, 2012 16:12:30 GMT -5 deminmaine said:

Feb 6, 2012 16:10:50 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

It's only that way if you fail to recognize we're the good guys.

Not to the Russians and Chinese we're not. You need to recognize the realities of international politics.

totally. how we think of ourselves, and to a LARGE EXTENT behave, within our borders is totally different than how we behave outside them.

[reasonfreedom]

Feb 6, 2012 16:10:50 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

It's only that way if you fail to recognize we're the good guys.

Being good guys and egotistical rarely happen in the same instance if you ask me.

[djAdvocate]

Feb 6, 2012 16:15:14 GMT -5 deminmaine said:

Feb 6, 2012 16:12:29 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

not really. we were really good until 1973. the USSR were the veto kings prior to that time.

Oh, OK, we're saying different things. I pointed that out because they used the veto power all teh way back to the beginning. I wasn't fingering US Vetos.

I also don't necessarily equate being "really good" and not vetoing. It depends what is up for action.

true enough.

[zibazinski]

Kick that good for nothing UN out of this country once and for all. Stop aid to any country that is not our friend. Ask my EX, a friend who have to buy is not a friend. We need that money to pays for all the entitlements the govt spends on here at home. Bring our troops back, secure our borders, then start rounding up the illegals and send them home once and for all.