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Originally Posted by rubecube
In terms of effectively enforcing international law, sure the U.N.'s record is pretty abysmal. That said, if you're a country and government that maintains that there should be adherence to international law, and gets on your high-horse when other countries don't adhere to it, mocking its conventions makes you look like a bit of a jackass.
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UN conventions don't prevent deaths and as such, the UN is irrelevant. The UN is a place where a bunch of diplomats can get together and do nothing but write strongly worded letters. I'd rather not sit behind international law and the UN while people are being slaughtered. The international community has done it at least twice in the last 20 years. Lets not do it further because of "conventions".
Act. Now. Worry about if Syria is going to get pissy about it later.
Honestly, of all the things to harp about, the fact that
this is what you're picking is just odd.