This just in from the Department of Hollow Threats...

U.N. Orders Iran to Suspend Nuke Program

VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- For the first time, 35 nations in the U.N. atomic watchdog agency demanded Saturday that Iran freeze all work on uranium enrichment - a technology that can be used for nuclear arms - and said they would judge Tehran's compliance in two months.

Oh yeah, that oughta bring 'em right into line... not. This was one of the problems I had with the run up to the Iraq war. Everyone was going on about how President Bush, by actually following thru on threats made, was making the UN irrelevant.

Wrong.

The UN, by its own inaction, encourages tin-pan dictators and theocratic whackjobs to do whatever the hell they want to without fear of repercussion. The UN, not President Bush, was making the UN irrelevant.

If the UN doesn't grow some stones and actually back up its resolutions, Iran's going to keep on keepin' on. That is, until the US has to step in a knock some heads in.

An event that, when it finally must come to pass, will no doubt piss off most of the world.