eclectica
2004-05-07, 12:47
The UN is not democratic because it allows five member countries to veto any of its resolutions. Because it is not democratic, it is not fair. The UN lacks the checks and balances to fight oppression and corruption committed by any of the five members of it: Britain, China, France, Russia, United States.
The UN is impotent because it lacks the ability to condemn and fight evil with the sword. It only knows how to offer the olive branch. In their attempt to be diplomatic or not to offend member countries, they hold their tongue and their needed criticism. Their continuing naive outlook on justice lacks the conviction to condemn tyranny in a meaningful way. The UN is a tool because it is used by an oppressive country such as the Zionist entity the United States to extract peace using double standards from its Islamic enemy Iran, or other countries which are not allowed to have weapons of mass destruction. But when those very same oppressive countries decide they want to break the law and its rules, such as the Israeli settlements in Palestine, the preemptive military strikes of Zionists, or the lack of recognition of Geneva Convention rights of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, then they cast the UN and the spirit of international law aside because it is at that point an obstacle to them. Thus in balance it is merely a tool to justify oppression.
The UN fails to condemn powerful member countries that use it as a tool. It ought to adopt a less diplomatic attitude and punish the United States for its ambivalent support of it. For example, when the United States chose to act unilaterally rather than multilaterally on the Iraq issue, it should have been exiled and banned from the UN.
When the United States wanted to invade Iraq, it made threats to the UN about how it was becoming impotent, yet ironically it was the United States which rendered it impotent by violating the spirit of international law and selectively following just the laws it chose to follow.
The UN is impotent because it lacks the ability to condemn and fight evil with the sword. It only knows how to offer the olive branch. In their attempt to be diplomatic or not to offend member countries, they hold their tongue and their needed criticism. Their continuing naive outlook on justice lacks the conviction to condemn tyranny in a meaningful way. The UN is a tool because it is used by an oppressive country such as the Zionist entity the United States to extract peace using double standards from its Islamic enemy Iran, or other countries which are not allowed to have weapons of mass destruction. But when those very same oppressive countries decide they want to break the law and its rules, such as the Israeli settlements in Palestine, the preemptive military strikes of Zionists, or the lack of recognition of Geneva Convention rights of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, then they cast the UN and the spirit of international law aside because it is at that point an obstacle to them. Thus in balance it is merely a tool to justify oppression.
The UN fails to condemn powerful member countries that use it as a tool. It ought to adopt a less diplomatic attitude and punish the United States for its ambivalent support of it. For example, when the United States chose to act unilaterally rather than multilaterally on the Iraq issue, it should have been exiled and banned from the UN.
When the United States wanted to invade Iraq, it made threats to the UN about how it was becoming impotent, yet ironically it was the United States which rendered it impotent by violating the spirit of international law and selectively following just the laws it chose to follow.