Why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is proof the UNSC needs reform?

It is clear from the abject inaction by the UN Security Council - in the handling of several ‘rogue states’ - that the member veto should be dropped in favour of simple majority rule.  It is this geostrategic manoeuvring that so hinders international action and progress.  Basically the world is a board game with all the major nations squaring up their energy supplies for the next few decades.  Iran – at least in the short term – is a major player and as such is courted by China.  Also let’s not forget China’s insidious involvement in Sudan etc.

Iran is also cash rich and is contracting Russian expertise to build its ‘civilian’ reactors.  So its therefore belligerent posturing is under the perceived assumption that the US is emasculated by Iranian support in the UNSC.  Neo-Conservative hawks within Washington (& Langley) look to subvert the UN and unshackle the US.

This is why the UN is in such need of reform; it allows the Neo-Cons all the evidence they need for unilateral action.  Without the UN international law would collapse and elements within the US administration would run ramshackle over the rest of the world.  Thankfully there are still internationalists within Washington that understand that imperial hegemony creates as many problems as it solves.

Iran should be dealt with but we must not allow/force the US to deal with it alone.  This is in direct contradiction to the Iraq war where the perceived threat was fabricated, and inflated.

We must also remember that – a la Iraq – military action (in the guise of invasion) would create a power vacuum, which we would have fill to ensure stability (of oil supplies).  The Balkanisation of Iraq has helped shore up hatred of the west and damaged our credibility in the eyes of the world.  Iraq – as I have argued so many times – was senseless.

Sanctions first – sanctions that are strict and controlled.