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Originally Posted by a2ng0d
Yes, it is true that politics rules over humanitarianism in this world. But it's just what we have to deal with to make everyone happy. Besides, I don't think America invaded Iraq without consent from the UN. Which is why we have other countries in Iraq as well: Britain, Canada, Australia. I do believe that they may have planned the events of 9/11 secretly to gain rights to invade the Middle East.
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What? Are you a conspiracy theorist?
The US did send in troops to Iraq without the green light from the UN, on top of which they used falsefied and embelished "facts" to support the reasons Iraq was invaded in the first place.
And thinking the towers were downed for rights to invade the Middle East.... wow. I can't even begin to explain how boggled I am at statements such as that.
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You gotta think of it this way: Back around 2005, Japanese intelligence reported that China was tripling its military budget. As we all know, the Chinese government was purchasing petroleum, tanks, and several fighter jets. The Japanese believed that they were planning an invasion of the surrounding countries, and reported it to the United States, who ignored it until about a year or two later. Why were we so cool about it? Because to randomly invade countries would be suicide without the UN's consent. You would get Romped. In current events, Russia got owned by the UN and was forced to withdraw from Georgia.
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Owned? How so? Russia stopped attacking Georgia days after it started and then stated they weren't going to withdraw out of the regions they had taken over. Russia didn't have shit happen to them.
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America basically had the permission from the UN to participate in this current war for reasons that "We're fighting terrorism", or "We're getting them back", and while they're at it "Let's take out a dictator and free these people". Everybody knows that the American government wouldn't do that out of the goodness of its heart.
But I digress. The UN may not be perfect, but it is our first successful attempt to unify as a race, and it would be the first to respond (I hope) to any possible extraterrestrial attacks. I wonder, doesn't the UN have its own army? I might be wrong.
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The UN is the remnant of what was put together after World War II to counter the spread of Communism. It's a system which serves no real purpose any more other than to help the superpowers of the world waggle their finger at smaller countries and say that's a nono, and then blatantly disregard what the UN suggests when they try to do something.
The concept of a UN, of a WTO, of a European Union is great. It's execution will almost assuredly fail every single time as long as there's countries on different economic, social, and technological levels.