I hear ya, kiya. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
But I rather see a new organisation handle war/peace problems.
A new organisation that only handles world peace and human rights for instance. Nothing more.
And that has enough ppl in the field to make sure things happen.
Not like now, when they just say "tsk tsk, you shouldn't do that, you bad person, you" and then stand by and watch/wait till the conflict is over. That's just why nobody listens. They have no authority and no respect left.
There are to many conflicts in the UN internally. It's about to many things: trade, human rights, economics, war/peace, environment,...
Conflicts are bound to happen. Members will vote against a war becouse they have the economic intrests in the back of their heads (under preasure from the politicians or the homefront). Or, and that's even worse, members will vote for a war becouse they have economic intrests in mind.
I rather see a group/organisation that doesn't have to answer to no one. But ofcourse, becouse of the members being human that's dangerous too. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />
All that happened in the last years just made things worse.
The world has never been so devided. And it gets more divided every day. Countries fall apart into smaller countries. The muslim and western worlds are drifting further apart. The USA and Europe are drifting apart.
Worldpeace will always be an illusion...
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sad is right. Sad for you if you think that abandoning the UN will result is something better being formed. You might want to take a look at how hard it was to form the original UN. You promote a new organization that will have independent powers; uh, hate to break it to you, but that is what the UN is supposed to be right now. Why isn't it? because countries like the (current) US fear all international organizations that might limit their ability to extend their own interests wherever they want. Look at the world court, for example. Of all the nations in the world that supported the idea (over 85 and counting) >Edit: make that 120 and counting<, only the US and Australia are against it at this point in time. Here is a little blurb about the court from the UN's website:
>>>In July 1998 in Rome, 120 Member States of the United Nations adopted a treaty to establish -
for the first time in the history of the world - a permanent international criminal court. This treaty entered into force on 1 July 2002, sixty days after sixty States have become parties to the Statute through ratification or accession.
"The long-held dream of a permanent International Criminal Court is nearing reality," United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said recently. "Our hope is that, by punishing the guilty, the ICC will bring some comfort to the surviving victims and to the communities that have been targeted. More important, we hope it will deter future war criminals, and bring nearer the day when no ruler, no State, no junta and no army anywhere will be able to abuse human rights with impunity." <<
The US has been working double time to bribe or extort countries into not accepting extradition for US citizens from the World Court. How can an international peacekeeping or justice organization work if the most powerfull exempt themselves from the rules? Why on earth would you believe that forming a new organization would be successfull, when the US is constantly trying to tear down what already exists?
With the way politics swing in the US, there may be an anti-hawk backlash in the US in the next elections (or at least somewhere in the near future, I hope). when that happens, if we have abandoned our commitment to peace that the UN represents, and the UN is disbanded, what will happen then? Where will the rule of law exist?
Is the whole world except the US wrong is supporting the UN, seth (over 190 countries, remember)? The only hope we have to keep the world from drifting further apart IS the UN. BTW, that is WHY IT WAS FORMED TO BEGIN WITH!!!
