UN hypocrisy?

Question

Many people accuse the US of hypocrisy, whereby they are the champions of democracy and liberty but do not, for example, purge Sudan of its genocidal maniacs. Is this solely a reflection of US greed, i.e. not getting involved if US economic interests aren’t at stake, or does it represent both a dislike for getting involved in African politics, because of America's past history of slavery, or a institutional problem at the UN, who have literally watched massacre after massacre (Rwanda, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Zimbabwe etc.) without taking action?

Not that I give a rat's ***, but why would someone give a thumbs down to this question? Is there such a thing as a bad question or just bad answers? People are funny...

I can see how that interpretation can arise, but as a suffix to the "champions of democracy" statement I had said "many people" and therefore, I did not stress my own viewpoint. It was up to the reader to agree or discuss one of the issues at hand. I’m afraid you added your own prejudices to the question when you should have saved them for your answer. Plus, how does personal opinion affect the suitability of a question? It appears a question is a bad if it is not affirmation of the answer you want to hear. Regards. A

Answer 1

You get the thumbs down for a badly phrased question. Your question is not seeking an answer to UN hypocrisy, of which there are many instances (normally caused through exercising the right of Veto by permanent members of the security council).

You state that the US IS "the champion of democracy", that is a debatable point. UN observers are in The Sudan and were in Rwanda. By International rules all UN forces must be invited in be all parties and a resolution passed by the council.

The USA has used the right of Veto the most in the council to block things that the USA believe is not in its interest.
So while the permanent members of the security council have the right of Veto there can be no true democratic process within the UN.

UN forces are not allowed to take aggressive action and may only defend themselves under direct fire.

Answer 2

hypocrisy is the ailment of the modern age and significant of chiristianity veering widely off the path of spirituality. unfortunately christianity is the 'west', and the west is currently economically and therefore politically dominant.
the UN in itself is not an hypocrisy as it is set up to be run buy all the nations of the world... and until recently all nations of the world respected that. but now there is one that doesn't because it believes that the UN will be the platform of the antichrist... namely america.
all it takes is for one country to opt out of an initiative like the UN and the whole thing crumbles.
with regards to what happens in specific countries... understandably the UN is not a police force for local politics. there are many different political creeds out there, and just because you or i don't agree with it, doesn't make it right that we should impose our views. in order for a nation to evolve, it must go through it's growing pains and have mistakes to learn from.
on the same level however, if we don't agree with a certain politic, we shouldn't support it either, and as an individual nation, we have the capacity to not trade or give those govts. financial hand outs. and that to me is the penultimate hypocrisy, the fact that the tyrannical govts. receive bllns every year from the west.

Answer 3

Yes to say the least! Genocide and ethnic cleansing is nothing new in Africa and in the last 2 decades alone, hundreds of thousands of people have died in this Continent, which is ignored in main stream politics. What is even more sad is the fact that the last 2 chiefs where from Africa and they failed to do anything about it.

The UN as a world body has failed miserably at all major issues and have always been more of a debating society. The UN security council should be immediately dissolved and no one should have the right to veto. If America talks about democracy, let their be democracy in UN on a global scale with all resolutions up for voting by all countries not just a handful of states deciding the fate of humanity either by coercion or for their own political agendas!

Answer 4

I'm not one of those who share the defeatist sentiment that US (or the Western world for that matter) is responsible (wholly) for African present predicaments. If Africans leaders are stupid enough to massacre and starve their own people to death like what we are presently witnessing in Sudan then we don't need to put the blame at the door step of any external body ---all this is defeatist brainwashing . Even if we claim that they are responsilble for our past problems they are not liable for our present problems

Sudan has turned down the proposed UN troops claiming sovereignty when thousands are dying and the Arab world just look the other way. The Arab world made so much noise when Iraq was invaded but keep mute when their brothers in Sudan is killing Blacks in that country.

The earlier Africans realised that their problem is that of no one but theirs the better. Enough of this belief that we cannot solve our self-imposed problems ourselves without outside inteference. Afterall, western world has interfere in the past to our own detriments

Answer 5

The UN is paralyzed by its outmoded constitution and the right to veto of the permanent members of the Security Council.
During the cold war this was even more blatantly obvious than today, when both the US and the Soviet Union were at it.

Now the US is the biggest abuser of its power, and they have the neck to turn around and accuse the UN of being useless, when it was their fault for crippling the organization in the first place.

Answer 6

No.
Just at loss in having communication problems with self lack of knowledge in solving their own problems in their own backyards with misinterpretation and miscommunication with communication failures and communication break-down with nlost sense of direction on what they were suppose to do in the UN but sleeping it off while little children were waiting for them to come home with the Fishing lines, Hooks and sinkers for them to Fish for their daily bread for their own survival on planet earth.
Somehow along the way they all ended up at the shopping mall at madison square with all the toys for themselves while children back home were crying and hungry on planet earth.

Answer 7

Given the phrasing of your question I am inclined to view it as solely a reflection of US greed, i.e. not getting involved if US economic interests aren’t at stake.

Answer 8

We're not the UN's private police force !
Let some of these other countries do something to help themselves and their neighbors .

The UN is seeking the power to levy taxes on the American taxpayer , check it out foe yourself .

Answer 9

its basically not hypocrisy....its helplessness of the uno at the hands of the big 7 which fund and run the uno....therefore its simply a question of economics....if the big 7 have stake in some region the uno intervenes....otherwise it doesn;t bother.

Answer 10

Aaaah just leave em all to it on thier own Rwanda,Uganda,Sierra Leone,Zimbababwe, they'll all starve them selves to death and the the east !well religion is the root of all evil, leave them to it too !