Why restrict it to the "developed" World Carrots? Or do you feel that if situations are compared taking the whole of the world into consideration, the examples you seek might throw up the names of a few places where the UN has failed completely.

Darfur? one hell of a lot more people have been killed and displaced there compared to Iraq. Somalia? even the elected government cannot take its place because it is too dangerous. DRC? Rwanda? Ivory Coast? Sierra Leone? Nepal? All shining examples of what the United Nations can accomplish.

No matter how bad things might appear to be viewed through the eyes of the western media which is predominantly anti-American and always has been, for the average Iraqi there now exists the prospect that things are going to get better, that is something that they have never known before. That Carrots is an improvement.