August 27, 2003
The 15-member Security Council passed the resolution one week after the United Nations' Baghdad headquarters was destroyed by a truck bomb.
The resolution stresses that "attacks knowingly and intentionally directed against" humanitarian or peacekeeping personnel "constitute war crimes" -- language that was a key goal of the sponsors of the resolution.
The Security Council sits in a hollow rotunda. Somebody seriously needs to run around the middle of that thing with a clue by four and apply it liberally.
To strengthen protection of its personnel, the UN passed a resolution. They passed a resolution! Don't they understand that a freaking memo to the field offices would be more effective? A little email with basic instructions like "When your country of operations is liberated from an oppressive regime, replace the local guards who are loyalists to the departed powers. Also, when the occupying power of a country offers you assistance with your security and said power is not a totalitarian or theocratic despotism, and said power has just completed the most successful ground war in the history of mankind, assume that they know more about the security situation than your sorry pencil pushing ass and let them help."
I really can't believe they passed a freaking resolution. Does anybody believe that the next Exploder Jr is going to change his mind because the UN is willing to call his scraped together leftover bits a war criminal? Unbefreakinglievable.
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