Kicking off the A-to-Z rule set on processing politically bankrupt states
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 8:29PM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

 

UK and France led the way, US votes yes, and rest of non-Western great powers all abstain {correction: Germany abstained, Russia voted yes}.

Still, you take it.  Let's hope it's not too late and Obama pulls out a win here.

A reminder of how I've described the ideal A-to-Z process, from Blueprint (lifting from the glossary page on this site):

  • UN Security Council indicts
  • G-20, acting as functioning executive, unleashes the Leviathan and finances reconstruction
  • Leviathan intervenes
  • SysAdmin stabilizes and begins nation-building
  • International Reconstruction Fund oversees rebuild
  • International Criminal Court adjudicates identified war criminals
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    I  know, I know.  We were never going to do this - ever again!  But the point was always that we didn't need to do it alone, and if Obama's intransigence or strategic patience or whatever got it done right this time, then I eat my criticism of him, because the larger good here is worth pursuing.  That's why Russia and China abstained.

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