[freddie]

Originally Posted by PowerPuff Grrl

Doesn't matter either way, the West cannot do anything about it.

This just bolds another problem of international politics: UN is a totally outdated and inefficient institution. Cases like this were one of the reasons UN was established in teh first place: to directly or indirectly force a country that could pose a threat to peace or destabilize the area. Most military actions tend to be an act of a sole superpower chasing it's own interests (USSR in Afghanistan, Vietnam or USA in Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iraq...), rather than a case of a clear consensus between all the nations of the world to take actions against a country. The only such case that I can remember was operation Desert Storm in Iraq.