The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113211   Message #2417059
Posted By: Little Hawk
18-Aug-08 - 02:29 PM
Thread Name: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
I'm not saying it would work. ;-) I'm saying they would enjoy participating in the excercise.

Bodies like the U.N. can only work if they have the collective authority (and the military muscle) to enforce their decisions...and if their decisions are wise ones in a general sense.

The victors at the end of WWII created the U.N. to represent their own selfish interests, NOT to free the world. They set up the Security Council with that idea in mind. Then they had a falling out amongst themselves, and that led to the Cold War.

It has all been an exercise in grandiose self-interest on the part of a few powerful nations, and at the expense of the rest.