SPEAKING OF LAME DUCKS
I have just returned from a trip from Greece (which was fantastic). While I was there, I had a slight case of cabin fever in a hotel room where the only English channels were news networks. After watching CNN nonstop for two weeks, I have come to the conclusion that certain words have entered my black book of dislikes. These words are the United Nations, summits, forum, Koffi Annan and Bono.
I can't stand this beauty pagent version of world peace and international co-operation where the future of the world depends on the world working together under the glorious banner of the UN and global harmony. The reality is that the world works through a global hegemony and this idealist school of putting all the hopes of the world on the UN is lame to say the least.
Don't get me wrong, the UN has done great things in the past. It played a role in resolving the nuclear crisis of the 1960's and has played a great role in galvanising resources together for humanitarian development, education and so on.
But in the past 10 years, what has the UN actually done? It has missed the boat on so many occassions to take a strong stand in the international political arena. And so it has failed to take the next step as the 'world government', as David Icke would like to say. It missed the boat on Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur and the list continues. Yes, there have been resolutions in the security council on world issues. But today, world leaders treat these papers like a German Reichsmark of the 1920's. The UN is tangled up with so much bureaucratic red-tape,and has become so PC and middle fenced so as not to offend any country or rock the boat that it has become a mickey mouse club.
Unlike my most esteemed counterpart, El Hermo, I like to provide solutions in my blog writings. However the only solution I see to the UN is for all of us to realise that it is not the solution of mankind and saviour of world chaos. We should merely accept it for what it is, a forum for international opinion where 200 countries get together,draw on a piece of paper, then translate it into 5 other languages, debate over a word on the paper for 360 hours, agree and then file it in the archives.
5 comments:
Sup Dude,
its so cool that you offer solutions in your blog writings. I can only dream of having the capacity to find solutions to global issues and conflicts like you do.
But when is a solution actually a solution?
In my unresolved and totally unauthoritative opinion, a solution only works when it is practical and acceptable. To use your example, to accept the UN as a Mickey Mouse Club is to completely throw away the opportunity of using the world forum as a global decision-making entity. While I concede that to a large extent their resolutions are not enforced, the fact remains that these resolutions remain the result of a GLOBAL consensus.
So the solution you offer is to ignore this Global Consensus, throw the decision making power on global affairs into the hands of an elite few, and watch as the world implodes as more and more states become disillusioned at the fact that there voices are not being heard and listened too. Watch while countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia (Iran, Somalia, North Korea) rebel against the fact that they are constantly ignored by furthering their imperialist agenda.
I agree with you, Mach, the UN has devolved into a Mickey Mouse Club - but without a strong global forum and voice, the world stands on the precipice of utter and complete destruction.
I think you need to come up with a better solution.
El Hermo
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My dear el hermo,
two things i would like to mention
1. I said in my blog i usually offer a solution in my writings but in this particular situation, i dont have a solution.
2. the only partial solution i propose here is not to expect the un to solve all the problems of the world but rather to accept it for what it is, which is a forum for world opinion.
we are pretty much arguing the same thing.
uh...you're a towel!
I will not have my blog become a place of stupid accusations. you have been warned el hermo
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