Friday, March 07, 2003
The tv's back.*Breathes a sigh of relief*
Typically, the first thing I found myself watching was the news, more specifically, the U.N. Security Council meeting, following the Blix report.
Arguments regarding who's right and who's wrong aside, one thing rather struck me about this meeting, and all the others previous to it, and it's something that kinda leads me to question the effectivenes of such meetings in general.
These people don't actually talk to each other. The delegates aren't in a position to respond to what they've heard from other delegates speaking previous to them in that meeting... they simply read pre-written speaches, with no room for actually assesing what's been said already. One nation might provide key new imformation that should logically alter the view of other nations and/or their representatives, but as things work there, opposing points of view still get aired which completely ignore the facts just stated. Perhaps all perspectives are re-evaluated later by the various nations, but it seems that assesing the attitudes and opinions of each nation is problematic when working in such an unresponsive manner.
It's frustrating to watch.
All of these people are in the same room, they can all hear each other, but they are not actually communicating in realtime. They may not actually be ignoring each other, but no genuine assesment of information appears to happen.
Much as I may dislike Bush's attitude towards the U.N., I rather can see his opinion that the U.N. may become irrelevant.
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Steve 5:26 PM [+]
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