Paragraphs of the Day: Mark Steyn on the Brit-Iran Hostage Situation
As usual with the One Man Global Content Provider, the whole column in Sunday’s Chicago Sun-Times is excellent and should be read in full.
These paras stand out. They include a factoid (in bold) about UN authorization that the Formerly Mainstream Media seems to have conveniently overlooked:
OK, well, how about the United Nations? Those student demonstrators want the execution of “British aggressors.” In fact, they’re U.N. aggressors. HMS Cornwall is the base for multinational marine security patrols in the Gulf: a mission authorized by the United Nations. So what’s the U.N. doing about this affront to its authority and (in the public humiliation of the captives) of the Geneva Conventions?
Short answer: Nothing.
Slightly longer answer: The British ambassador to the U.N. had wanted the Security Council to pass a resolution ”deploring” Iran’s conduct. But the Russians objected to all this hotheaded inflammatory lingo about ”deploring,” and so the Security Council instead expressed its ”grave concern” about the situation. That and $4.95 will get you a decaf latte. Ask the folks in Darfur what they’ve got to show for years of the U.N.’s “grave concerns” — heavy on the graves, less so on the concern.
