I wonder, cynically, if the fact that the Security Council veto would result in the UN being unable to act was *also* something of a sop to the Senate. "Come on, let us join! It's not going to have much real power, anyway!!"
Re decades of military occupation, my dad likes to quote a talk or speech or something that William Faulkner gave in Japan during the US Occupation, in which he said that coming from the American South, he knew how occupation felt. Which ... really dude? Really?
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Date: 2022-11-29 10:05 pm (UTC)Re decades of military occupation, my dad likes to quote a talk or speech or something that William Faulkner gave in Japan during the US Occupation, in which he said that coming from the American South, he knew how occupation felt. Which ... really dude? Really?