What are people's general perceptions of the UN? Both in its current incarnation, and whatever you think it might have the potential to become.
I think that the UN today is really nothing more than a big charity organization. It lacks any power, authority, and above all independance to have any real impact. Idea is good, tho, but in practice... The superpowers dont give a crap about the UN has to say (Iraq war).
George Bush said he would go to the UN for a vote with Iraq and he didn't keep that promise. If you don't respect the UN you aren't going to help enforce anything they do. Look at the situation with Lebanon and Israel was it last year? Whenever recently Israel invaded Lebanon. The UN said to have a cease fire and Israel gave the UN the middle finger. One thing a professor of mine (a political scientist) has talked about is how the UN has no power to enforce anything such as cease fires. They don't have any type of military or anything like that. Only when EVERYONE respects the UN and their authority and works together will it even start to matter and have an impact on the world.
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QUOTE (MrLeft @ Feb 19 2008, 01:21 PM) 
What are people's general perceptions of the UN? Both in its current incarnation, and whatever you think it might have the potential to become.
I think that the UN today is really nothing more than a big charity organization. It lacks any power, authority, and above all independance to have any real impact. Idea is good, tho, but in practice... The superpowers dont give a crap about the UN has to say (Iraq war).
George Bush said he would go to the UN for a vote with Iraq and he didn't keep that promise. If you don't respect the UN you aren't going to help enforce anything they do. Look at the situation with Lebanon and Israel was it last year? Whenever recently Israel invaded Lebanon. The UN said to have a cease fire and Israel gave the UN the middle finger. One thing a professor of mine (a political scientist) has talked about is how the UN has no power to enforce anything such as cease fires. They don't have any type of military or anything like that. Only when EVERYONE respects the UN and their authority and works together will it even start to matter and have an impact on the world.
I think that the UN today is really nothing more than a big charity organization. It lacks any power, authority, and above all independance to have any real impact. Idea is good, tho, but in practice... The superpowers dont give a crap about the UN has to say (Iraq war).
George Bush said he would go to the UN for a vote with Iraq and he didn't keep that promise. If you don't respect the UN you aren't going to help enforce anything they do. Look at the situation with Lebanon and Israel was it last year? Whenever recently Israel invaded Lebanon. The UN said to have a cease fire and Israel gave the UN the middle finger. One thing a professor of mine (a political scientist) has talked about is how the UN has no power to enforce anything such as cease fires. They don't have any type of military or anything like that. Only when EVERYONE respects the UN and their authority and works together will it even start to matter and have an impact on the world.
Okay, now that you and this Indoctrinate U professor have seen the problem(s), come up with viable and feasible ways to fix them.
It is not enough to just say it is messed up any more, you now, after years of howling in the winds with No solutions, you on the left can no longer dodge reality any more, now in the burden wished for power, you now must fix it all, not talk about fixing it all, as usual!
It is now time for big leagues of grown up time for the Bonzo's at Indoctrinate U, spring break is over.
Good luck indoctrinated of Indoctrinate U?
Utmost DO NOT forget the ancient axiom of widsom; “The solution of every problem is NOT another problem!”
That is all!!
Look at its organizational chart; the entire UN is a gargantuan collection of agencies, from WHO and UNESCO to the Peace Keeping Forces, etc. Nobody expects it to be perfect, and in fact it is poorly managed. So is almost every large government. In an age of a single super power who can ignore the UN, it will be ignored at the worst times. If that super penis can screw whichever country it wishes to screw, the UN can only stand by.
QUOTE (Fit2BThaied @ Feb 21 2008, 02:58 PM)
Look at its organizational chart; the entire UN is a gargantuan collection of agencies, from WHO and UNESCO to the Peace Keeping Forces, etc. Nobody expects it to be perfect, and in fact it is poorly managed. So is almost every large government. In an age of a single super power who can ignore the UN, it will be ignored at the worst times. If that super penis can screw whichever country it wishes to screw, the UN can only stand by.
O yea that is the ticket. The prodigal hymn of heterophobic manly logic spewed in the customary Pyrogenic pubic hair-ism’s of anti-Americanism’s unperfected perversions, by the doom-o-phobic.
That is all!!
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