Put Up Or Shut Up

FOXNews.com is reporting that the British may be about to propose a compromise resolution in the UN to give Iraq somewhere between 72 hours to one week in which to totally disarm.

I really think this is getting old. We, being the US, British, Spanish and Bulgarians, are spending way too much time messing around with the bunch of twits on the Security Council. Everyone on the council, except for us four, is afraid of actually having to make a decision. Their idea of security is that the UN provides them job security. They've seen their internal job markets; they're afraid to go back home and be unemployed! The longer this drags out, the more likely it is that we will lose interest or become consumed by another situation (read: North Korea).

The Security Council is worthless in its current condition. It gives more last chances than the Salvation Army. It will never again be viable so long as France is a veto empowered member and so long as a nation like Syria can sit on it. It is a joke and a disgrace. Not to mention that it is trying to infringe on our national sovereignty simply because the French and Germans think we should "just get over it."

We do need to "get over it." We need to get over wasting our time with international coalition building. We know who our friends are; we have already built a coalition of the willing. We don't need anyone else. To hell with foreign public opinion polls, if we're going we need to go. If we're not, we need to get out. The French have not helped us and will not help us. Why are we trying to get them on the bandwagon, too?