A key goal of the Bush administration, with which the Harper government has co-operated, has been to downplay the significance of the United Nations, where U.S. power is sometimes challenged, and expand the role of NATO, the Western military alliance long dominated by Washington.
To justify this move, there's been a concerted effort on the part of the Bush administration and right-wing commentators to undermine the legitimacy of the United Nations.
This campaign has involved portraying the UN as hopelessly ineffective, pointing to its inability, for instance, to stop the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
But the UN is only as effective as its members allow it to be. The tiny UN force in Rwanda, led by Canadian general Roméo Dallaire, called out desperately for additional troops and the right to intervene to protect civilians, but the UN Security Council declined to act on the requests.
http://www.thestar.com/article/166537
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Hostility To UN Linked To Restraint It Imposes On U.S.
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"U.S.'s Hostility To UN Linked To Restraint It Imposes On U.S."
Given that there's almost no UN restraint imposed on the U.S. as it is, the U.S.'s complaints amount to a complaint that it is not yet fully running the UN unilaterally.
As it is, the UN is already being viewed as a tool of U.S. emperialism, and as a result the UN is seeing growing hostility and loss of respect in general from the world at large.
The problem with any organization is that sooner, or later, it becomes the toy of inner circles and special interests.
I have soft spot for the UN, as it saved my life when it outlawed forced repatriations in 1945, but that was long ago, when it was still new and full of hope, long before "wealth creating market conomics"
Ed Deak
For your information, the super rich own them BOTH.
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
Communist? I thought Bush was a Republican. He not only endorses an armed citizenry, he sends them out all over the world. He even insured that the American representative to the UN, was one who despised it. The Americans even attempted to change the statutes of the UN to their liking upon threat of not paying their long overdue Membership fees. The Americans doublecrossed the UN by invading Iraq and then demanded financial support to pay for the damage..
Actualy, I prefer your version.
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Expect little from life and get more from it.
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
Will Linda write about that as well I wonder? How will she lay the blame for Darfur at the feet of the US?
It is common knowledge that the US is waging a war in Somalia via proxy.
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Sudan next to Ethiopia. Ethiopian troops in Somalia. Easy link.<p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
-Max Planck<br />
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Not every bad thing in this world is the fault or the responsibility of the US no matter how you try to spin it.