What does UNILATERAL mean?

[FrenchieCat]

and what is the difference between that and Multilateral?

[FrenchieCat]

1. No one wants to answer?

I thought this was an easy one....
perhaps too easy.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Here...

Unilateral....

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unilateral

Multilateral....

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/multilateral

[Tx4obama]

3. Here ya go ...

Unilateral = done or undertaken by one only
Multilateral = done or undertaken by many/multiple ones

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Does your question have a point?

(I'm guessing it does, because I know you're very smart)

[FrenchieCat]

5. Something to do with that 2007 quote that folks keep using

spoken by candidate Barack Obama.
Something about not wanting to do war type stuff unilaterally.

[MannyGoldstein]

6. Your point is that if other countries do it, that's permission for the President to do it

without Congressional approval?

Really? You think that's what candidate Obama meant?

So Bush had the right to attack Iraq because Iran was still officially at war with Iraq?

I thinks it's more of this: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-june-15-2010/respect-my-authoritah

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Technically, Dubya's invasion of Iraq was multilateral

The US wasn't the only country involved in the invasion.

[treestar]

8. One sided, with anyone opposing having no say

As Cheney/Bush wanted things to be.

Or what they called "weakness" (which the PL also does saying that Republicans should be ignored). I hate Republicans, but they get their say.

[arcane1]

9. "without congressional approval" I suppose n/t

[Keith Bee]

10. Sarah Palin thinks it's a kind of triangle

While "multilateral," according to Michele Bachmann, is when you need more than one ladder to climb something, such as the summit of Mount Batshit.

[Hosnon]

11. Alone. But the context was with regard to Congress.

Not any other entity, such as the U.N.