UN still united?
Why the huge, top-heavy UN system is being maintained for doing practically nothing, at least in taming the big rouge nations? Like the earlier League of Nations after the first world war (1914-18), the life-span of UN is ebbing away, drop by drop since the first Iraq war. Its impotency is pathetic to watch. It has its own Security Council, but its definition and modalities are warped. Why the smaller members should continue to pay the UN subscription when there are no political solutions to local conflicts? Is the veto system still valid in this fast changing world?
UN is behaving like a comedian on the stage, for occasional laughs and titter from starving bellies. The grass widow has no grazing ground. Appeal to whom to revive the UN, or draw the curtain? This debate is now due and very much topical. The philosophy of pre-emptive strike has turned human morals upside down. Guns cannot provide political solutions, as we have seen in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, and other places.
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