December 6th, 2006, 12:31 PM
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| MR Meek and Mild
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: almost Virginia
Posts: 5,115
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Originally Posted by MTAtech Historically, the UN has been useful at fostering dialog and is attributed with stopping wars by getting the parties talking. However, it requires that the member nations have respect for the institution. If you start off with that the UN members are out to get you, it doesn't work. |
What wars did the UN really prevent? Vietnam, korea, zimbabwe, iran/iraq, the continent of africa, balkans... really what war has the UN stopped. Or were the participants really not bent on war for the battles UN claims to hav overted. |
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