Originally posted by GScholz
Nice bait and switch there Rude. What does my post that you quoted have to do with UN Peacekeeping operations? Nothing.
You clearly don't understand anything about the UN. The UN does not have an obligation to do anything else than what its member nations wants it to do. If the member nations don't want to do anything ... nothing gets done.
As usual you focus on the UN failures, even invent some, but the fact remains that the UN have had notable success in peacekeeping operations.
Still ... this is only a diversion to cover for your rather disgraceful ignorance of the international support you're getting in Iraq despite most nations being against the war. If most Americans are like you, you truly don't deserve the support you're getting.
I'm very much much aware of the help that we are getting regardless of your mild attempt to prove otherwise....my point is the ones that could help and more rapidly bring about a solution, remain absent....the one's who have called themselves our allies and enjoyed the relationship with our country....the main players on the European theatre prefer to stand at arms length waiting for the opportunity to profit all the while Kofi points the accusing finger at the US stating the illegality of US action in Iraq.
You're right....they don't have to help....however, they should.
You have always been an ardent cheerleader for the UN....my comments to you regarding the UN remain....if you can defend that body with a straight face, then do so knowing not only myself, but anyone with any knowledge of actual UN operations will simply shake their collective heads at your defense of the same.
I have rarely felt the need to engage you on this board as your reputation clearly defines such an attempt as a giant waste of time....still, you should know that while you might be a great guy to have a beverage with, your political view towards our country and general opinion of what is right and what is wrong must have been shaped by one single unpleasant happening in your life...your mind seems closed to exploring anything other than a one dimentional viewpoint of the US and our foreign policy.
It is your precise attitude which makes a true alliance with Europe, highly unlikely.
