Do Liberal People Think the U.N. is Actually an Effective Organization ???

Question

I don't get it . It seems that some Liberal people 'believe' that we should ALWAYS have the approval of the U.N. !!

This is difficult for me to swallow, and I know there must be some Liberal people who can think independently of the media and propaganda .

So, do you think we always need the approval of the U.N. ??

Answer 1

Sadly, yes some do think so.

The U.N. is an anti-American entity and we need to boot them out of the United States. They along with the ACLU are leading us to a one world government. I and many Americans do NOT sit well with that. They are useless like the ACLU.

Secondly, NO we do NOT need approval from a bunch of anti-American socialists.

http://www.unwatch.com/index.shtml
http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2005/11/10/top-ten-reasons-to-stop-the-aclu/

Answer 2

Do Liberal People Think the U.S. is Actually an Effective Organization ???
I don't get it . It seems that some Liberal people 'believe' that the states of the united states ALWAYS have the approval of the U.S. !!

This is difficult for me to swallow, and I know there must be some Liberal people who can think independently of the media and propaganda .

So, do you think state governments always need the approval of the U.S. ??
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Is talking about things effective? Well, if you call the fact that the USA and USSR did not turn each other into nuclear wastelands...then yes. Talking about things is effective, and the UN is effective

Simply having a place where nations can meet and discuss things of imprtance to the world is of far more worth than anyhting that they "do"

we should indeed seek UN approval, because we joined it, just like california joined the united states.

I hear a lot of people scream about how california should be nuked because we don't like what it's doing...should california always do what the USA wants? No! But it should listen, and try to compromise between what is good for california and what is good for the USA

The same way, the USA should not act solely out of it's own self-interest, but keep in mind the rest of the world..and the UN which we signed up for.

Answer 3

The UN rarely has any good effects anymore. As the WHO they did some great work in the past (smallpox eradication, for example), but for the last 20 years, it's all been about redistribution of the world's wealth. Blaming the west (with nearly all the blame on the US, UK and the rest of the old G7/NATO) and also Israel for everything.

The UN takes months to draft a resolution to condemn north korea, but they can slap one together to condemn Israel in a day. What does that tell you?

They b itch and moan about anything the US, UK or Israel does, but ignores the real problems of the world (Sudan, for example). They don't have the guts to do anything that might involve more than signing papers.

Answer 4

The UN is a body explicitly set up to acknowledge the fact that the world is a community. It tries to open beneficial dialog, and coordinate the goals of its members for the good of not one entity, but the good of justice, fairness, and reason. When people here say the UN is anti-American, what they are really saying is, the UN doesn't always side with the US, as when they think the US is wrong or isn't furthering the agenda of fairness, justice and reason.

Conservatives are still smarting over the fact that the UN gave them their distant early warning that the war in Iraq was being fought for the wrong reasons, was unjust and ill advised. They now have an axe to grind with that body which they will never be able to let go of.

Answer 5

Well, I guess so!

However, hateful, the Republicans talk about the U.N., they still give it way too much power.

If you ask any Republican, they will say that America and England went to war in Iraq in order to help the U.N. out after they had given orders to Saddam Hussein to dis-arm himself of the weapons of mass destruction that Daddy Shrub and the Alzheimer's Kid endowed him with back a few decades ago.

America goes to war to do the U.N.'s work.

How important is that?

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Answer 6

The UN is only as strong as its members are willing to make it. When the UN said that the Iraq War was a mess, the United States ignored it. The US only listens to the UN if the UN says what the US wants to hear. If the US had listened to the US there wouldn't be a mess in Iraq right now.

Answer 7

It's sort of like a woman who is chronically beaten. Eventually the beatings drive her into the arms of another man who also beats her. Many liberals can see that our government does bad things sometimes, but their victim mentality makes them think that the answer is an even bigger government! It's terribly sad and ironic.

Answer 8

no one will agree with every decision the UN makes. even UN member states will not always agree on everything. get 6 of your friends together and try to decide what to order on a pizza. people blame the UN as a whole for the crimes/corruption of a few members or member states. that is as ridiculous as blaming the US military as a whole for the crimes/bad acts of a few.

to enforce a UN resolution we need UN approval.

edit. how would we feel if russia or china decided that they should enforce a resolution against israel,by military force? for the sake of stability in the region.

Answer 9

Previously, only outlaw states like Palestine went against the UN. Now, under Bush, the US has joined this august company of grown men who bang their shoes on the table and yell like recalcitrant monkeys.

Back story: There's a thing called the UN Charter that optimistic, forward looking people who didn't want to repeat the debacle of WW1 and the Versailles Treaty once believed in. Kids need to read up on it before they get up from their cereal box and poptarts and start firing salvos at imagined enemies on yahoo answers. The death of this site is laziness, ignorance and disinformation in the form of rants like the OP's.

Answer 10

Liberal do not necessarily believe that the UN is effective. They do believe that it represents our best attempt at a form of international justice. Currently it is our best instrument at promoting peaceful development.

Liberals also believe that if the USA was more supportative of the UN then it would be a more effective instrument.