Posted by PBS Mind |
Did y'all see this? The Washington Post informs us that the U.N. is still looking for WMDs in Iraq, four-plus years later! Oh -- by the way -- they still haven't found any.
(Pause while shock sets in.)
Russia, ever pragmatic, wants the search to continue until we can definitively say for sure Iraq has no weapons. The U.S., naturally, wants the search to stop because the longer (and longer and longer) they go without finding anything, the worse we look -- you know, since we invaded on the idea that Iraq was armed to the teeth and pointing them at our heads.
The poor slobs doing the looking "recognize this is unhealthy." But they are powerless to stop it until the U. N. tells them to.
Given the chill between Russia and the U. S. lately, I'm leaning toward thinking that this is partly just Russia stickin' it to the man, because the U. S. apparently refuses to release some information to the U. N. that would allow them to finish the job. (OK -- is it just me, or do you also see a disconnect here? The U. S. wants them to stop, but won't give them what they need to finish the job so they can stop? Hello?)
Meanwhile, the weapons-detection experts at the U.N. are gradually getting fed up and leaving -- and a resource that might be valuable to us in the future in some locale that actually does pose a threat is disappearing.
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