scottdisco
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i realise the above links don't deal with all the controversy that's arisen over the OFF scandal but to be perfectly frank a lot of the media coverage of this in the USA is, essentially, innuendo.
if all the things UN critics are saying happened did happen then fair enough let's have accountability but it's difficult to have a balanced discussion of the OFF scandal etc. in the States right now because the American media machine etc is so ludicrously anti-UN for the time being (and i'm not denying there are a great many things we shouldn't slag the UN off for, as i believe the board here might have already discussed, of course i'm not), so it really is difficult to get to the nub of the matter with all the mud flying around.
so for the time being a politically-motivated witch-hunt is pretty much what's going on, so i don't think occasional CASI reliance on UN documents back then etc invalidates any of their arguments or, indeed, moral force.
i realise the above links don't deal with all the controversy that's arisen over the OFF scandal but to be perfectly frank a lot of the media coverage of this in the USA is, essentially, innuendo.
if all the things UN critics are saying happened did happen then fair enough let's have accountability but it's difficult to have a balanced discussion of the OFF scandal etc. in the States right now because the American media machine etc is so ludicrously anti-UN for the time being (and i'm not denying there are a great many things we shouldn't slag the UN off for, as i believe the board here might have already discussed, of course i'm not), so it really is difficult to get to the nub of the matter with all the mud flying around.
so for the time being a politically-motivated witch-hunt is pretty much what's going on, so i don't think occasional CASI reliance on UN documents back then etc invalidates any of their arguments or, indeed, moral force.