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Delivered-To: john.podesta@gmail.com Received: by 10.25.24.31 with SMTP id o31csp4707056lfi; Sat, 28 Feb 2015 12:49:46 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.202.1.200 with SMTP id 191mr13716537oib.82.1425156585551; Sat, 28 Feb 2015 12:49:45 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: <brentbbi@webtv.net> Received: from SNT004-OMC2S3.hotmail.com (snt004-omc2s3.hotmail.com. [65.55.90.78]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z1si4101110obg.51.2015.02.28.12.49.44 for <john.podesta@gmail.com> (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 28 Feb 2015 12:49:45 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of brentbbi@webtv.net designates 65.55.90.78 as permitted sender) client-ip=65.55.90.78; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of brentbbi@webtv.net designates 65.55.90.78 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=brentbbi@webtv.net Received: from SNT404-EAS93 ([65.55.90.73]) by SNT004-OMC2S3.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.22751); Sat, 28 Feb 2015 12:49:44 -0800 X-TMN: [CBykDlmdq3gBhjrLGLC1rxpw8HkLzZ1+] X-Originating-Email: [brentbbi@webtv.net] Message-ID: <SNT404-EAS9392BAA7A6C34BCF981C79DF120@phx.gbl> Return-Path: brentbbi@webtv.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Brent Budowsky <brentbbi@webtv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: ISIS Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 15:49:45 -0500 To: John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Feb 2015 20:49:44.0491 (UTC) FILETIME=[14EC4FB0:01D05398] John, people can agree or not with my views on ISIS, but here the text of a= memo I sent today to someone very high level in the USG suggesting a United Nations force agai= nst ISIS modeled after the Uniting for Peace resolution during the Korean War: With ISIS now committing genocide against Christians alongside mass crimes a= gainst humanity I would revive my suggestion to enact a resolution of the U.N. General Assem= bly, based on the precedent established under the Uniting for Peace Resolution during the K= orean War, to create an international force, against the ISIS terrorist state. The Genera= l Assembly would actually be preferable to the Security Council, even if Russia would not vet= o, because a General Assembly-created force could put reclaimed territory in Syria under i= nternational supervision rather than under Assad. Personally I am not interested in waiting for the next 20 terror attacks bef= ore we devise an effective response. We are now embroiled in arcane discussions with a dysfu= nctional Congress over inadequate policies. There will be multiple aggressive terror attacks i= ncluding on American and European soil that are programmed as inevitable under the current polici= es. If there is one matter the nations of the world should be able to unite against, and act aga= inst, it is the crimes of ISIS. A General Assembly created force could be significantly larger than any alte= rnative force with minimal contributions required of any single nation. My guess is that t= he prospect of facing this kind of force would have such a powerful ideological and militar= y impact, with a united world behind it, that much territory now controlled by ISIS could be l= iberated within a reasonable time frame. On current course I do not believe that any of the leaders of the U.S., Euro= pe, the Middle East or the world will be proud of their legacy or historical reputations followi= ng what is clearly a humiliatingly inadequate and inept response to ISIS. If there is one purp= ose for which the United Nations was created for and should stand for today it is putting a st= op to the mass murder, genocide and crimes against humanity that ISIS pursues today. Sent from my iPad=