--- Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > THe UN does alot more than just resolve international disputes. > > > > > > But is it a MAJOR function. If they can't act to resolve things, I > > > > What defines a 'major funtion' of the UN? > > General expectations of the populace, maybe? I doubt if anyone would > be > surprised to hear that the UN should get countries to play nice. Most > would > think it was the major function it 'should' provide. In addition to > all the > humanitarian efforts.
I'd say that a far more significant percentage of the world's populace care about the UN's humanitarian efforts than its ability to prevent wars. > > > think > > > they should not scream at those who do. Their inaction forces > > > unilateral > > > action. It is no excuse for ill advised unilateral action, but it > is > > > one big > > > cause for it. In fact, the UN is, in this area, a tool that you > can > > > use when > > > you don't want some action. > > > > How so? > > Demand that when one country interacts with another in some way that > they > cannot do so without UN approval. In the best of worlds, this would be > a > good thing to require. But, knowing that the UN can never decide in a > timely > fashion means that the interaction will not happen for a very long > time. At > least, this has been the case historically. Sometimes 'slow' is good. > But > not always. Just about all true democratic legislative bodies are slow. Mr. Bush should look at his own Congress as a prime example of a slow legislative body that eventually produces results (whether good or bad is an entirely different debate). Applying Bush's tenates on his own country's legislative branch would result in them being obsolved long ago whenever he didn't get his demands met in a timely fashion. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/general
