Jerzy wrote:I agree, the US only recognise the United Nations when they see fit, as soon as something like the "war on terror" is started they tell the UN to get lost.
That, sadly, is correct. The UN is little more than a talking shop which is badly need of radical reform if it is not to go the way of the League of Nations.
It is beholden to the US who don't pay a whole lot of attention to it. The US is the UN's biggest creditor, owing it billions in unpaid rates, and the US only goes to the UN when it attempts to whip up support for its actions abroad. However, as Iraq showed, when the UN didn't give the US wanted, the US ploughed their own furrow, followed closely by Britain, Spain and Poland.
It has become increasingly irrelevant since George W. Bush decided to end America's historical policy of "never firing the first shot" and largely from now on the US will pretty much by pass the UN whenever it feels that its in its interests to do so.
Leaving the US aside, the UN lost all credibility over Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo, and the current tragedy in Dharfur will not be prevented by the UN as it cowardly refuses to class what is happening there as genocide because if it is deemed genocide, the UN is bound by its own articles to intervene.
they are worse than children!
I'd love it , but only if you agree to drive me there , seeing you in the flesh would surely make my day 
