Even if you guys eliminate the need for it, can we still have our swell regulatory agency?
According to the BBC, the UN has taken great care to make its new weapons inspection team (the "UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission") a "much more palatable organisation for the Iraqis to deal with." Among the new measures was apparently an extensive course of sensitivity training, which UNSCOM lacked: all members of UNMOVIC "have been briefed on how to avoid offending the cultural sensitivities of the Iraqi people."
I don't know about you, but I feel safer already.
Yet, the report warns:
this care and attention to detail could, however, be overtaken by events if the US administration decides to act on its threat to intervene militarily in Iraq.
Kofi Annan expressed worries that the threat of US military action was "preying upon the minds of the Iraqi delegation."
I would imagine so. But isn't that why they're even having the discussions in the first place?
Posted by Dr. Frank at May 11, 2002 01:11 PM | TrackBack