whenhiphopdrovethebigcars said:
Dear womanfish,
with all respect to your opinion, my opinion is that you are not well informed on the subject of the UN. I won?t talk about war or not war here for now, lets talk just about the United Nations.
If you think you are a little informed, please post the UN Charta here and critisize the articles which have to do with the actual situation. Post the UN resolutions that were made in the process you call "horrendous UN track record", and your interpretation of them. Post what the CTBTO is, what its major tasks are, what the IAEA is, what the IAEA does; post actual statements of the Secretary - General about the war, give a history of Mr. Blix?s statements and tell me why and from which point he was bashed by the US administration. Post why UN officials, - who are very well informed, just take my word on this - think this war is breaking international law. Post about the six main bodies of the United Nations, and do tell how on earth you come to the conclusion that deeps post is about polling results of the public. Tell me about the Security Council, how it is built up, how it works.
If you think you are well informed, please go ahead and pm some scenes behind the curtains to me. I would like to learn from you. And tell me when you have been to the United Nations Headquarters, and what kind of atmosphere you have felt there.
Finally, you can maybe explain about the difference between resolution 1440 and 1441
Regards from the oval office,
whenhiphop
I see you like to post quizzes, so my reply shall be somewhat the same fashion. I will not even go into your ridiculous test questions on every aspect, every council member and a transcript of every word they have ever spoken. I have never said anything about failures of Hans Blix, and no I don't know Kofi Annan's pant size either. I take note of your smugness. but as a rational, intelligent human being, I only expect people to keep themselves informed with some good general knowledge. I don't act like an ass and ask them what "what kind of atmosphere they feel when visiting the UN headquarters".
That said, it is well known of the failures of the UN, some people even speak out bitterly towards them and say they are the cause of horrible human rights atrocities across the globe. I don't think they are the cause, but in many instances have failed to act when they should have.
Here are some cases that I didn't need to visit the UN headquarters to know about. You can tell me how the UN was a succeeded in these instances if you would like. I consider them failures in my opinion.
Kosovo
Rwanda
Congo in 98
Serbia bombings in 99
Cambodia
Sierre Leone - UN troops pulled out of attack on Kabala leaving thousands dead
East Timor - Thousands killed as UN couldn't agree to send troops, Australian troops finally intervened.
Srebenica - Again UN undecided, they pulled peace keeping troops that were already there and that had brought thousands to a save haven. After being pulled by arguing UN - it left the gathered muslims to be slaughtered. Almost 8000 in all.
And of course Somalia - UN troops killed 250 demonstraters. Then of course the bungled mission which turned into a bloody street battle.
I don't doubt that the UN officials aren't well informed. I never said they weren't. But every country has their own agenda, and the way the security council is set up it just doesn't work well to provide help and stability where it is needed and in a timely manner. Again, my opinion.
And "how on earth do I come to the conclusion that Deeps posts are about polling results of the public" Well because they are smart guy. I quote - "Why do the POPULATIONS of over 90% of all other countries in the world not support this war?" He is saying that a majority of the population in over 90% of the countries in the world are against the war. I would imagine you would need polling results to come up with this conclusion. But that's just common sense, something you seem lack.
And just curious. Why would you want to know the difference between 1440 and 1441? 1440 I believe deals with Chechan rebels in Russia and 1440 is about the disarmament and continued non-disarmament of Iraq.
P.S. - U.N. Ambassador Richardson loves Ham and cheese on rye bread for lunch. I know because I am so behind the scenes.