USA Butting into China's Business Again!

[Peikko 1,575]

Does that translate to mean you wish the UN hadn't been created, or that it has largely outlived its usefulness? Do you even know what the aim of the UN was when it was created?

You ask a lot of questions and ignore most of what I wrote but that the usual method here. It doesn't bother me the UN was created and it's pretty useless at the moment but who knows in the future. I'd speculate the UN was supposed to prevent war as the defunct League of Nations tried and failed at.

From your response, I can only surmise that you don't really know much about what the UN does, nor what the Declaration of Human Rights is for and I am wondering if you know anything about world politics outside of a very narrow "if it's good for America it's good for everyone perspective"? Human rights issues are pretty much central to foreign policy so I am not quite sure how you have managed to remain ignorant of it for so long.

Since you can't do much on this topic than your standard insults it leads me to believe you don't know much about the UN or foreign policy. You could least quote me correctly or summarize my pov with some degree of accuracy. What's good for America may not be in the national interest of all nations or vice versa. That's true of all nations.

Feel free to explain how UN Declaration of Human Rights has been more influential than say the U.S. Consitution, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the Magna Carta, Roman law, English custom law . . . ? Show us your depth of knowledge because no one more than your humble servant is such need of a personal tutor. This is turning into an episode of Super Nanny.

Human rights haven't been central to foreign policy and mounds of bodies in Bosnia, Rwanda, N. Korea, Sudan, West Africa, Congo, Cambodia . . . say your wrong in believing the world will react to wholesale slaughter with military intervention to uphold human rights provisions in a document every nation signed.

I really don't mind how you perceive me to be, it's very much irrelevant. I will say though, that unless you know what the purpose of an organization is, and what it sets out to achieve saying that it's not much good is rather like saying 'I don't think much of this washing machine, it really doesn't dry my clothes very well'.

[Heracles 417]

I really don't mind how you perceive me to be, it's very much irrelevant. I will say though, that unless you know what the purpose of an organization is, and what it sets out to achieve saying that it's not much good is rather like saying 'I don't think much of this washing machine, it really doesn't dry my clothes very well'.

What if it's a washer/dryer in one.

[Peikko 1,575]

, now that's funny.

But it doesn't really change the point I was making. I can't see the purpose of naysaying an organization if you don't even know what it's does - except for some airy fairy notion that it's sole objective is to establish world peace.

[HAL 9000 96]

I really don't mind how you perceive me to be, it's very much irrelevant. I will say though, that unless you know what the purpose of an organization is, and what it sets out to achieve saying that it's not much good is rather like saying 'I don't think much of this washing machine, it really doesn't dry my clothes very well'.

What if it's a washer/dryer in one.

VERY well stated.

[Heracles 417]

, now that's funny.

But it doesn't really change the point I was making. I can't see the purpose of naysaying an organization if you don't even know what it's does - except for some airy fairy notion that it's sole objective is to establish world peace.

I get the point.

The UN is great in theory but simply does not have the power to get anything done. There are a lot of people part of the UN who are trying to do good deeds but face a mountain of obstacles. At the end of the day, the world has gone back to a point where everyone does their own thing anyway. Sanctions do not really work and the reality is the world is becoming polarized again.

[HAL 9000 96]

I don't think it helps when powerful nations do as they please.

[alienlovechild 75]

I really don't mind how you perceive me to be, it's very much irrelevant. I will say though, that unless you know what the purpose of an organization is, and what it sets out to achieve saying that it's not much good is rather like saying 'I don't think much of this washing machine, it really doesn't dry my clothes very well'.

In defense of the washing machine I could explain what it does that is useful. I would explain a dryer has a different function.

You had told me nothing of value about the UN's role in keeping the peace but there wasn't too much to say about it was there?

At the end of the day, the world has gone back to a point where everyone does their own thing anyway.

Cleo's crystal ball is too cloudy to figure out what you're talking about.

Household appliances, anyone?

[HAL 9000 96]

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