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Originally Posted by marlin
This sheds a more even light on the subject: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4044895.stm
Notice that there has been a year of negotiations already. Also I get the impression the actual point of the ultimatum (without actual date), is to speed up the decision process and preferable not to go it alone.
The need for multilateralism here is not because of moral issues, but to get the cash together. |
A year?! That's way short of the "go-it-alone" time limit. 12 years minimum must be suffered through with no action before a nation can act unilaterally.
In other news:
http://trans-int.blogspot.com/2004/1...-incident.html
Does everyone hear the roar of moral outrage coming from Europe? Yea, I don't either.
I thought this was an interesting article too:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/wm219.cfm
"Since launching an assault on Gabon in 1964, Paris has militarily intervened on the African continent an average of once a year -- 35 times in 34 years."
Good lord! Though the math doesn't seem to work out, that's still a pretty staggering amount of pacification. You guys should just colonize the continent - it would save in transportation costs.
What's that? Oh, you tried that already? Hmmm. I thought the US was the only country with imperialistic ambitions?