Kerry's foriegn policy thinking seems to be, let the UN handle things. However, didn't we do that with Kosovo after former President Clinton got done attacking that sad place, and without an international concensus (i.e. UN approval)? Does anyone know if we (the USA) still have troops there, and what the state of that area is? The UN still has 18,000 troops there, along with 4,000 international police officers. Is it safe? Is it democratic? Is it economically stable and prosperous? Has ethnic cleansing and genocide ceased there? We never hear anything about Kosovo, yet candidate Kerry's position is that the UN should take over Afganistan and Iraq. Can the UN handle it? Will the UN be more or less capable than the current international coalition overseeing Afgansitan and Iraq?
Kerry has spent a great deal of time disparaging the Administration's handling of the war on terror and the removal of Saddam (a move he sanctioned when he voted to give the President the blessing of Congress to use force). Yet, what does Kerry really plan for Iraq if elected? For the life of me, I can't decipher it, but it seems to involve having the UN take over there. So I ask, in all seriousness: What happens to Iraq, and the Middle East in general, if administration is turned over to the UN? Will international terrorism increase or decrease as a result? Will the world be any safer or more peaceful if we turn our security over to an international body with neither leadership or the will to exercise it?
