getting off topic again guys and the flaming is rising.

redneck you say the US wasn't in rwanda to do somthing about it. the UN were only there in 80 peacekeepers. the un isn't a single nation with an army of it's on. those peacekeepers come from member states. uk, france, us, germany, japan. what prevents a larger number of peace keepers being sent is refusal by these nations. more should have been done in rwanda. like right now more should be done in zimbabwe, burma and sudan. and it is up to the nations in the UN to push to get this done. otherwise it is a failure of humanity.

more needs to be done in this world and not by individual nations with their own agendas but for the benefit of the world. this is what the UN sets out to acheive. yes i believe it should be slimmed down. the veto removed and it's powers strengthened. i would like to see actions not words on forcing the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, on protecting human rights, on genocide, on poverty and disasters. slimming down the UN is the way to make this more effecient.

but i don't believe it is a corrupt system. it is a way to prevent a repeat of two disastorous wars. that is what uni-lateral action can and will at one point lead to. i believe the us needs to come back into the un.

iraq and iran both had a right to be on the council for arms control. iraq having had it exercised against them with great effect and iran who at that time (and in my mind right now) were not considered a threat. libya on the other hand must e on the human rights council to prevent another versailles like problem with her being forced to sign a treaty she had not seen.

the us needs to be "lumped in" with countries that you may count as inferior. because belive it or not you are lumped in with them anyway. that's the way the world works. each of these countries and their decisions will have a direct effect on the us. you cannot set up a higher plateau for the us for which it can shout "we're better than you and can do what we want" because as world events have shown. you can't. and that's the way the un should be as well. we all have to share this earth and the borders we set up in it so we should all share the decisions taken for it.

please if this thread is to continue no more flaming. we need rational discussion. if this does not happen could an admin please just close this thread without anyone passing a warning on the goodness of their judgement *not been having much lunk with these threads)

edczxcvbnm i do hope that first post of yours wasn't racist.