God i miss cocain…

If I wanted to read articles I'd buy a news paper, I come to the internet to get excited, outraged and occasionally aroused...

Isn't that correct though for the original meaning of "meme"?

Yar, read it in Hans "Bricks" (Blix)'s accent :P, but the in this context I just wanted to point out that the sentiment was a bit off, that's all.

The UN is not meant to do things, its meant to be a forum for international politics.

That's if you pay in one lump sum, the idea is that you give it over in installments depending if the requested conditions are met and maintained. I don't know the exact balance but sometimes aid is sort of meant as a bribe. You write it up to aid the people but in reality you fully expect the local leaders to embezzle it. Its just a hard pill to swallow for the people back home, however for international politics bribery is a legitimate and important diplomatic tool.

A few things come to mind:

borderline ignore

conditional aid(bribe),

sanctions,

back opponents to regime(diplomatically, financially, militarily),

occupy (again...),

drone strikes,

sabotage,

assassinate someone important(I dunno if that would really halt them that much),

nuke(might be a bit of an overreaction)

Not a lot of those are appealing or effective, so the likely course of action is to just sort of let them be whilst nudging and teasing it where you can, and hope that the situation improves it self.

Diplomacy is a complex and nuanced art, of which I know very little, so I'm sure there are more nuanced ways for changing a country situation externally(if you want too).

Distinct in what context? Is it which oil field it was drawn from? If my GCSE chemistry is correct: crude oil is just a bunch of different hydrocarbon chains. I suppose there may be other molecules kicking around. Is it just the composition of theses molecules in the crude that demark it.

I feel for the poor sod who has to file off the oil molecules' serial numbers.