2006-07-14 01:57:54 · 5 answers · asked by sleepylew2002 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Why not ask yourself if the UN has accomplished anything of note without US or Western military support? The answer would be that it has not.
The UN, whose non-US 'peace-keeping' forces have: raped women, raped children, let people be killed, and especially the ones who stayed in their barracks while 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered around them.
The truth on Rwanda is that for some time prior to the genocide, the leader of the UN forces there kept calling the UN head of peacekeeping forces warning him that there was trouble brewing and that more international effort and troops were needed to prevent a tragedy. His pleas were ignored, and the rest is history.
The name of that UN official who ignored the pleas and did not respond? Kofi Annan. The same man who has failed to recognize genocide in Darfur, where some 1,000,000 have died.
The same man who presided over the UN during the Oil-for-Food scandal that featured bribery, kickbacks, and the Iraqi people going without food or medicine.
So, I don't know why people expect any help from the UN, unless it is in the form of US troops. It otherwise has a dismal track record.
2006-07-14 02:27:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The US being in Iraq is nothing. The stuff going on in the middle east is the same stuff that's been going on for centuries. We are just seeing a high stakes, large scale flare up. Basically, it's the same sh*t just a different day.
2006-07-14 09:05:09 · answer #2 · answered by kelly24592 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably, but it would only be on paper. the middle east has always been a warring country. their resistance has to do with each other and not other countries. if the U.S. pulled out there would still be the same controversies that was already there. it wouldn't make any difference.
2006-07-14 09:07:02 · answer #3 · answered by mary s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
The UN is the people who were involved in the 'oil for food' program scandals.
And they are the people who abandoned the Iraqi people after the invasion. (Notice that the UN is doing nothing to help the Iraqi people?)
2006-07-14 10:42:05 · answer #4 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The UN can't change a wet diaper.
2006-07-14 09:01:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋