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Originally posted by The Hierophant:
Well, much more could be done by the UN if it had its own standing army.
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Technically, it does have armies. Coalitions of it's member states can act in accordance to resolutions. For example, The U.N. flag flew side-by-side the South Korean flag after the south was reclaimed. The N.K. was beaten back by multi-national forces flying the U.N. banner in the beginning of the Korean War.
However imperfect the U.N. at least we can idealize the fact that it has the word "united" in it's title. Making it at least seem like being "united" is something we Earth folks actually strive to do. Recent times suggest the word rings hollow. It looks good on paper, "united" but like a bad dream real life is full of hand calculated long division. Or its just the political season and I am rambling.... [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img]
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[ 09-21-2004, 02:06 AM: Message edited by: Chewbacca ]