Wednesday, January 12, 2005
UN-Believable
You could see it coming from a thousand miles away. The US is no longer interested in what the United Nations has to say unless it's "Goodbye."
And, since there is no counter story, people have been buying the whole thing. Until the tsunami hit, people forgot that the UN are the real freedom fighters...er, but not in the Reagan-riding-on-the-back-of-a-nuclear-charged-burro kind of way. The UN is always the first to go into a big mess to try and create order whether it is the messy formation of a new nation or a natural disaster.
OK, so you may have also heard about the food-for-oil scandal and the, well, the exploitation of young girls in the Congo which are both inexcusable. In partial defense of the UN system, the international policing system is extremely weak. So much so that if the UN was aware of the bad behavior they wouldn't have the legal recourse to do anything about it. And, countries are not about to voluntarily give up their own laws for that of an international body, sovereignty is sovereignty.
-lobo
And, since there is no counter story, people have been buying the whole thing. Until the tsunami hit, people forgot that the UN are the real freedom fighters...er, but not in the Reagan-riding-on-the-back-of-a-nuclear-charged-burro kind of way. The UN is always the first to go into a big mess to try and create order whether it is the messy formation of a new nation or a natural disaster.
OK, so you may have also heard about the food-for-oil scandal and the, well, the exploitation of young girls in the Congo which are both inexcusable. In partial defense of the UN system, the international policing system is extremely weak. So much so that if the UN was aware of the bad behavior they wouldn't have the legal recourse to do anything about it. And, countries are not about to voluntarily give up their own laws for that of an international body, sovereignty is sovereignty.
-lobo
