Re the below, it is significant that  prime NATO target has
been socialist headquarters.
wcm
>
> Brett Murphy writes:
> > I am saying what is the good of supporting NATO when it is by
> > definition an organisation set up during the period of
> > anti-communist paranoia? That is why there is no point in supporting
> > NATO.
>
> The reason to support NATO (not the bombing but the NATO structure) is
> that the UN structure will never work as long as a subset of the
> members each has the veto power.  The veto power cripples the decision
> making authority of the organization.  In this case it would be China
> and Russia that would veto the action, and maybe it should be vetoed,
> but in the majority of cases it would be the US vetoing the action, in
> recent times on behalf of Israel or, of course, itself.  How many
> years ago would Palestine have become an independent state were it not
> for the US veto?  I think that problem would have been worked out long
> ago, but it would probably have required some kind of military threat
> or economic thread against Israel to do it, and that calls for a
> decision making structure that can't be derailed by one nation.  The
> NATO structure is a better structure for such problems.
>
> martin
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