When the United Nations Security Council passed its latest sanctions resolution on Iran, on June 9, President Barack Obama hailed it as "the toughest sanctions ever faced by the Iranian government." This resolution, he said, "sends an unmistakable message about the international community's commitment to stopping the spread of nuclear weapons."
Not yet, it doesn't. On such matters as money, weapons and terror, the so-called international community, whatever its U.N. trappings, is a snake pit in which the 192 member states are most reliably committed to first serving themselves. For some, that has already entailed a certain tolerance for the spread of nuclear weapons, if it means they might either hope to get some of their own, or profit from the nuclear quests of others. The U.N. is a place where one man's sanctions are another man's ticket to sanctions-busting profits--no matter how lofty the stack of resolutions.
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