With countries like the United States using their veto power to ensure that their policies are enforced overseas, should this relic of post-World War 2 be scrapped in favour of a more even handed system?
Veto powers should at least require the backing of at least a third of the countries involved i think. During the cold war the Soviet Union and the United States used their veto's to inflict their war all over the world, and now the United States is using theirs to enforce their new 'War on Terror' in regards to relations and conflicts in other countries such as Lebanon.
Why should only certain countries have such a power?
Remember, the United States vetoed a resolution for a ceasefire in the middle east.
Also, this is not anti-american, its just that they have used their veto most recent, and most frequent in the past decade.
2006-07-24
22:55:50
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A Drunken Man
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