Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced or cast aside without consequence?
Good question, George. Lets ask key US allies, like Turkey and Israel , which have long stood in violation of multiple Security Council Resolutions and enjoy overwhelming support from the US . (The US response to Israel s defiance of the Security Council is $3 billion a year in funding). The US itself is not in violation of Security Council Resolutions because it can veto any proposed resolution that is not to its liking. Thus, the US has vetoed more Security Council resolutions than any other country in the world. Free societies do not intimidate through cruelty and conquest. The US has bombed civilians indiscriminately ( Afghanistan , Serbia , Iraq , Sudan ); attempted to assassinate heads of government ( Congo , Cuba , Libya , Iran ); subverted democratic elections ( Greece , Guatemala , Chile ); blockaded civilian supplies of food and medicine ( Nicaragua , Iraq , Cuba ); supported policies of rape, torture and mass killing ( Guatemala , Nicaragua , El Salvador ); and backed regime