Posted by
Gary Langston on Saturday, September 26, 2009 11:25:23 PM
Let's see...the mission of the United Nations....to resolve issues between countries through diplomacy before countries resort to military force...uh, they consistently failed at this goal. Since the 1950s, more wars have started than have stopped. By the end of 1995, wars had been running in Afghanistan for 17 years, Angola, 30; Liberia, 6; Somalia, 7; Sri Lanka, 11; Sudan 12. The number of refugees from armed conflicts worldwide has increased from 2.4 million in 1974 to over 30 million today. Women and children make up 80 percent.
Here is the Preamble to the United Nations Charter:
* To save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
*To reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of a human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and
*To establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of International Law can be maintained, and
*To promote special progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
The U.N. has failed these missions with few exceptions...read the second mission statement. Yes, the U.N. affirms human rights but, abuse of human rights are as prevalent as ever.
The U.N. has never even come close to abolishing war and it passes meaningless resolutions against Israel, China, Russia, most of Africa and the U.S. with political agendas attached.
The U.N. is broken and the only way it can be fixed...is to abolish it, stop spending money on it..."Who Woulda Thought" that the number of countries that are actively killing segments of their own population far outnumber what we would call 'civilized' nations and the U.N. is not doing anything...they are broken. "Who Woulda Thought"......