Ever late to the game, UN's resolution against Libya "shocked" me. UN security council's credibility has suffered big hit in the past decades as it failed to act on the Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan etc. I am surprised to see UN finally was able to make a move this time given China and Russia's huge interest in Libya. Is this vote signal a paradigm change in UN security council? Would Iran now stop its nuclear weapon program? I bet Gaddafi was surprised by this resolution. He probably wish that UN security council has passed this resolution a week ago so that he didn't launch his attack campaign on rebel and gave himself a safe exit strategy. We will see if he could still exit without a bruise.
Then I learned both China and Russia abstained from the resolution vote. And on Monday they both criticized ally's missile attack on Gaddafi. Come on, really, guys, you meant you cannot foresee what is going to happen once the UN resolution passed? I think UN security council should have a rule that if a country abstains too many times from a resolution vote they should waive their voting right for a year or so.
I am wondering what concession China and Russia got from abstaining from the vote.
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