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One of the many UN failures was it`s inability to keep us out of Iraq.
Like Bush really cared?
Their biggest fail is that it is a money pit for wasted payroll. They cut numerous programs, but keep all the staff in place in offices. They drive in numerous trucks of donations, but don't verify that it actually makes to the people it was intended for (there are numerous photos on the net showing their label for sale in markets). They sponsor education programs, but don't verify the curriculum that was approved and paid for. And they wonder why the US finally has a President that has reduced its funding of them and won't take a lead in any operation unless the UN makes a resolution to do so.
One of the many UN failures was it`s inability to keep us out of Iraq.
When has the UN ever succeeded?
The Korean War was the UN's very first action, and we are still at war 62 years later. When Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974 the UN interceded and to this day Turkey is still in Cyprus. All UN sanctions against every country where it has ever been imposed has failed dismally.
There has been no time in the UN's 64 year history that it has ever succeeded in preventing a conflict.
The Korean War was the UN's very first action, and we are still at war 62 years later. When Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974 the UN interceded and to this day Turkey is still in Cyprus. All UN sanctions against every country where it has ever been imposed has failed dismally.
There has been no time in the UN's 64 year history that it has ever succeeded in preventing a conflict.
well it had a major role in the cold war but after that with the rise of China and India and South American countries like Brazil where their economies are going to grow while ours contract but if any thing histroy shows Regions Rise and Decline ad then Rise while the others decline but one thing Canada the U.S. and russia do have it the natural resources that countires with emerging economies need to grow and so far I am more worried about a Rouge nation using nulcear weapons.
atleast with Russia during the cold war even though we both came close to having it turn hot we always found a way to not use them and we both knew we would be stupid to go to fullscale nulcear war due to MAD doctrine and now we have to deal with Rouge nations and terriost groups that would have no issues to use them and we are less safer now the in the Cold war.
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Complaining is easy, solutions hard. So the alternative to the UN is what, exactly?! NATO, the U.S. (or some other nation... like maybe China?), engaging in further unilateral "police actions"?!
Lets be honest here, the only "offense" the U.N. is guilty of, is its vague implication of a possible "One World guvmint" (cue the black helicopters), and it cramps right wingers' nationalistic grandiosity re: "American exceptionalism"!
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