Your Assignment, Should You Choose To Accept It…
…is to read all four parts of Thomas Sowell’s ‘Preserving The Liberal Vision’…
For bonus points, guess which paper this came from:
The US had earlier reverted to sabre-rattling [emphasis mine] by threatening to take Tehran to the UN security council unless it stopped uranium enrichment, a process that can produce material for nuclear bombs.
The answer here…

Funny that the Guardian deems taking someone to the UN Security Council is an actual type of sabre rattling. Ooh, watch out, Iran – the big, bad UN is going to shake it’s finger at you and threaten to impose sanctions that won’t work and say mean things about your sister if you don’t promise to stop doing those awful things with your nukes.
Good Lord, do these people really think that the world functions under the Marquise du Queensbury rules? Quick, name one major conflict that was successfully ended by troops under UN auspices – without the massive presence and leadership of the US military.