But everybody still is blinded by the "good things" that the UN does. Man i will go as far (to demosntrate my point) to go back to the Cold War. As everybody in America probably saw it, it was cold, but here.... Man it was hot like hell. First of all the Vietnam propaganda-war-for-democracy thing i don't think that everybody has eated that, but i don't know about your minds, and that was a perfect excuse to justify the army and still make countries like France or USA being seen as "good people". The same goes for the Soviet Union on those days. Anyway in that ambient of technologycal advancement and the 13 days, in wich the president of USA had in his hands the desteny of all the world, in the rest of America military uprisings were pumping up like it was one hell of a coincidence (we must remember that the UN already existed). In some places like in Vietnam, there goes the Soviet Union they convince some party to go to the "communist" side (not at all communist by the way) and then the Americans come trying to impose good democracy and freedom of speech, but by making war, does this concerns them, directly of course not, but again they must justify the army, and they sell weapons both sides, making big profit of it (both SU and USA), does everybody cares about the lifes that will be lost for sure, why if the profit is so great?. The same goes to the Gulf War (throwing down Sadam Hussein, please...) but that is another period. While that was happening on Asia, here uprisings supported by the american government and supplied by it had taked the government. The case of Noriega was a perfect example. Noriega was supported by Jorge Bush father, and when he was performing the tiran roll, Bush said, it's enough, it's not convinient to support him anymore (it's ok you can change your mind, if this is really the case), but does him considers other ways to stop and take him out besides just sending some little army and invade the countrie causing havoc there (besides the havoc that already existed). No!! Why would he do that?. Something similar happened with Hussein and Bin-Laden. Now, why does these countries have so unlimited power? Because the UN does nothing to stop them, because they are it's enforcers, and they are the only voice there. Now take Soviet Union out of the picture because it has lost it's power. Take France out too, because they are in an eternal debt with USA, and also Britain because of the alliance, the actions taked by the first minister (Blair) are absolute proof. What is the direction of the dessitions that the UN will take? Unilateral is the response...by the way discussion is out of the picture too...
In any case some people out there think that filantropy is a good thing, or yes very beautiful, does it has any real effects on education, work, independence or lasting effects on hunger and health, of course not, the contrary. Does the UN come here and put an stop to the atrocities that happen here, not, they just come before the Falklands War is over, for good yes, but the government was abdicating anyway.
I don't think that i can make myself more clear in short space, but if you want to see real effects, real actions, results, you have to see to the material not the ideal, and the material is economics, and the economics will always rule the ways work, from the distribution of job to the reciprocal agreements, and from the relation beetween people to the ones beetween nations. The UN is just another LIVE 8, it's bullshit, but as i said before it's constant bullshit pretending to globalizate the world and end the difference beetween nations, when some debate cannot do that, and the actions are always influenced by the powerful. But i'll still say that it's an instrument, it doesn't act like a global government, but like a global fachade...
And if you say that is a place for discussion then there must be more options abailavable than democracy and capitalism, the democracy is not at all that, it's just formal without any real thing inside it, and capitalism, well i think everybody knows how wrong is this one...Anyway the democracy thing has taken its toll because of the demagogy of leaders, ignorants and capitalists and communism seems to have no place in future plans for anyone country, so i will not say that this is only exclusively of the UN, but it reflects exactly on the same spot where everything is supposed to be open, and where escatological things like this cannot be out of the picture.
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