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The UN is doomed to failure because of its twin, conflicting, missions. On one hand, it aims to safeguard the freedom and dignity of people throughout the worl
by CWuestefeld 17y ago
The UN is doomed to failure because of its twin, conflicting, missions.
On one hand, it aims to safeguard the freedom and dignity of people throughout the world. Doing so sometimes requires using force against oppressive governments.
Yet on the other hand, the UN seeks to protect the sovereignty of the world's nations. How can it protect the sovereignty of a nation against whom it is fighting due to its other mission?
When its soul is built on two mutually contradictory ideals, it can never be anything but a schizophrenic wreck with at least one of those ideals (and more likely, both of them).
- dantheman 17y agoAgreed, I have many problems with the UN. I think that it should be broken up into two main bodies. 1. All the traditional non profit work: WHO, UNICEF, etc -- focus on that and leave the politics out. 2. Political function -- it votes on nothing, and merely serves a forum for countries to discuss issues; all treaties are then signed between those countries the UN is not involved.