I just saw "Hotel Rwanda." I recommend seeing it. It is an amazing story of bravery.
One can see first hand how UN "peace keeper" inaction has resulted in millions of deaths. You can watch as UN soldiers don't fire a shot into any machete hacking lunatic high on whatever. They just stand around watching little children being hacked apart with large knives - hands and arms and legs thrown about.
As I watched it - the thought came to me - "How many people have died because of the UN?"
Rwanda is one example - hell, the thugs were armed by the French none-the-less. Kinda of interesting.
The UN is definately broken. Or it is the wrong organization for these sorts of endeavors.
I wonder how many people starved or were killed by UN sanctions. It isn't the elite the sanctions are meant to effect. They always effect the common man - and rather dreadfully at that. The elite just black market their weapons and take from the commoners what they need.
Sanctions are really like a siege on a city - just multiplied. Sieges have always killed a lot of people when the horse meat is gone and the rats are eaten out.
It's not just UN inaction - there is the UN cronism and corruption. The oil-for-food scandal is showing that certain nations and people were helping Saddam stay in power for cheap oil and first rights to supply his domain (one could hardly call it a country) with items.
And yet, so many count on this corrupt killer of common people incapable of action to perform the actions needed to control the troublemakers in the world.
But of course, the apologists will go on about "well, America didn't do anything either" (under a democratic administration - go figure) or "America isn't doing anything now" which is a lie because we are out there doing something.




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