Subject: ISIS
From: Brent Budowsky <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 15:49:45 -0500

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 against ISIS modeled
after the Uniting for Peace resolution during the Korean War:

With ISIS now committing genocide against Christians alongside mass crimes against humanity
I would revive my suggestion to enact a resolution of the U.N. General Assembly, based on
the precedent established under the Uniting for Peace Resolution during the Korean War, to
create an international force, against the ISIS terrorist state.  The General Assembly would
actually be preferable to the Security Council, even if Russia would not veto, because a
General Assembly-created force could put reclaimed territory in Syria under international
supervision rather than under Assad.

Personally I am not interested in waiting for the next 20 terror attacks before we devise an
effective response.  We are now embroiled in arcane discussions with a dysfunctional Congress
over inadequate policies.  There will be multiple aggressive terror attacks including on American
and European soil that are programmed as inevitable under the current policies.  If there is one
matter the nations of the world should be able to unite against, and act against, it is the crimes
of ISIS.

A General Assembly created force could be significantly larger than any alternative force
with minimal contributions required of any single nation.  My guess is that the prospect of
facing this kind of force would have such a powerful ideological and military impact, with a
united world behind it, that much territory now controlled by ISIS could be liberated within a
reasonable time frame.

On current course I do not believe that any of the leaders of the U.S., Europe, the Middle East
or the world will be proud of their legacy or historical reputations following what is clearly
a humiliatingly inadequate and inept response to ISIS.  If there is one purpose for which the
United Nations was created for and should stand for today it is putting a stop to the mass
murder, genocide and crimes against humanity that ISIS pursues today.

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