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The U.N.'s terrorism gap

The feckless usefulness of the UN once again is apparent as it failed agin to come to any agreement on condemning terrorism. The opposition came primarily from the 56 OIC (Organization of Isalmic Countries)members...surprise, surprise, surprise! Who woulda ever thunk it!

A proposed U.N. convention against terrorism has been stalled since 1997. The holdup? How to define terrorism. But this is nothing more than a semantic trick. The Islamic states insist that terrorism must be defined not by the nature of the act but by its purpose. Putting a bomb in a market or train or bus is not an act of terrorism, they say, if it is done for a righteous purpose; namely national liberation or resistance to occupation. To say there is a problem of definition is to focus on a word. The real question is whether it is ever legitimate to target women, children and other noncombatants. For the Islamic states, the answer is yes.(Emphasis added)

Not only did the OIC oppose any meaningful definition of terrorism, it proposed changing the resolution to approve attacks, but it sought a refaffirmation of language in a 1970 resolution: "reaffirm[ing] ? the legitimacy of the struggle of the colonial peoples and peoples under alien domination to exercise their right to self-determination and independence by all the necessary means at their disposal."

The final phrase is euphemistic language included to implicitly approve terrorism. In the current action, the US claimed a partial victory by stopping such a reaffirmation.

If this is the best that can be hoped for from the UN, then we would be well served to bail out, and then to send them all packing off to Geneva or somewhere, anywhere away from the U.S.

Outcome of Vote Still Pending

There's been a fair amount of coverage of this, but the Chief's impression is that it isn't a very high level on the American interest meter.

Daily Demarche comments on this, with some reflections that seem to parallel the above. Since he is from the diplo-world, the Chief thinks that thee is some credibility there. He makes about as much sense out of the situation over there as anyone else could, with some suitable pithy comments comparing the situation to Florida in 2000.

It would be nice to see Schoder lose - but if not, things won't get any worse than they already are. Deutschland uber alles? Nein!

Mars getting warmer, orbiter data suggests

Well, here's more evidence for global warming, only this time it is on Mars.

Let's see now, Mars is getting warmer. Earth is getting warmer.

What do they have in common? Hmmmm. Oh, yeah, both are under the influence of the sun.

What DON'T they have in common? Don't look now, but Mars seems to be missing out on human industrial pollution, unless the NASA rovers are somehow putting out a LOT of CO2. Oh, right - they run on solar power.

The inevitable and logical conclusion is that any global warming effect, since it is occurring on two planets in the same solar system , under the influence of the same somewhat variable star, are being warmed together by that star - our sun, Sol, or whatever you want to call it.

So much for Kyoto, etc.

I'll be out all day tomorrow, as I'm headed to Gering for some sort of a state Republican Party "strategy session." I personally wasn't invited, but am attending with someone who was. If there's anything of note blog wise, I...

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