UN is a silly thing

Posted Dec 5, 2005 14:30 UTC (Mon) by epeeist (guest, #1743)
In reply to: UN is a silly thing by jmorris42
Parent article: Fellow Me: No more Vienna Manipulations!

> For over ten years Iraq flaunted UN resolutions while the UN blustered and took their bribes.

If you want to base the invasion of Iraq on its defiance of the UN then you should also look at which other countries have outstanding resolutions against them. There are a number who have had resolutions outstanding for much longer than Iraq.

There seems to be an attitude in the US which is not just anti-UN and anti-EU but anti-internationalist in general (of course all generalisations are wrong). I don't know whether this is because Americans feel that the world is against them. From my reading and discussions I get the feeling that while people loath the American government with its ignorance, belligerence and corruption the attitude to Americans is friendly and welcoming.

UN is a silly thing

Posted Dec 8, 2005 10:16 UTC (Thu) by ekj (guest, #1524) [Link]

I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that currently the USA is the dominating (one could argue "only") superpower in the world.

If you are the biggest child on the playground (and the USA is not only the biggest, in for example military spendings they are larger than the next ten countries *combined*) you don't really see the value of having any overnationaly governing structure. Why would you ? The alternative is that the USA does precisely like it wants to.

For the same reason, I'm willing to bet that Microsoft don't see much value in having any sort of anti-trust legislation.

No marketplace can be healthy when one player is dominating it. I propose that the world of international politics is a marketplace in this context.