-------Original Message------- From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------Original Message------- > From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Authorizes Member States co-operating with the Government of Kuwait, unless Iraq on or before 15 January 1991 fully implements, as set forth in paragraph 1 above, the foregoing resolutions, to use all necessary means to uphold and implement resolution 660 (1990) and all subsequent relevant resolutions and to restore international peace and security in the area; > ************************************** > > Wow! Note the phrase "all subsequent relevant resolutions and to restore international peace and security in >the area."
Actually, its not as open and shut as you might think. Whether Iraq now poses a threat to peace and stability in the region is open to interpretation. ***************************** No... that's not what I meant. Resolution 660 authorizes the use of force to enforce *all*subsequent*resolutions. Resolution 1441, not only explicitly recalls Resolution 660 in the Preamble - but takes the unusual diplomatic step of recalling it in a separate preambulatory clause to emphasize its importance. (In normal operations, the Security Council recalls all of its previous resolutions in a single preambulatory.) Thus, Resolution 1441 reads: "Recalling that its resolution 678 (1990) authorized Member States to use all necessary means to uphold and implement its resolution 660 (1990) of 2 August 1990 and all relevant resolutions subsequent to resolution 660 (1990)...." Thus, the plain meaning of this unanimous resolution is that the US is authorized to use force to uphold it. >Unfortunately, the reality is that most people in Europe tend >to favor the French >interpretation of the resolutions. Lost in >all of this is the tremendous victory >the French are winning in >their battle with the US. Tremendous victory? Let's see what the world looks like some months after the war is over. I personally think that France may be winning a victory, but that they are losing the War. Their influence will only be reduced after this is all said and done. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
