The United Nations Security Council has given the green light to the United States to launch a "proportionate" military strike inside Afghanistan in retaliation for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Sources inside the Security Council say the 15 member nations unanimously agreed that their Sept. 12 resolution condemning the attacks also endorsed an initial military response by the United States, and that Washington requires no further UN permission to act. [...] The change has come about, say the sources, because Washington's approach to retaliation appears to be "measured" and "in the spirit" of the resolution.
In other words, because we haven't already bombed Afghanistan off the face of the planet, they're reasonably certain that we won't bomb them off the planet.
Of course, this is also, one suspects, in part because most of the nations of the world would dearly love to see the Taliban overturned. (Conveniently forgetting, as the US has been required to forget for the moment, that when the opposition parties were in charge is when things started to go to hell in a handbasket. Then again, I'm not sure how the opposition could be that much worse than what they've got now.)
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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