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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (147689)10/12/2004 8:57:08 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The US can play a leading role in the UN -- when we have competent leadership in Washington we do exactly that.

Sometimes the US can do that. Competent leadership doesn't always mean that other countries will go along with you, even if the competence is in diplomacy, esp. if the competence is in other areas.

But lets assume for the moment that everything you say about the incompetence even stupidity of the current administration is true, and that we are paying a big price for its failure to work well with the UN.

That assumption doesn't negate my point at all. If G W Bush is the most idiotic American president in modern times, and if the US would have done much better working with and/or going along with the UN to a much greater extent it still does not make my earlier post in any way false.

The statement in that post (http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=20633600 or see below) is true.

- "The US is however the country that decided to overturn the invasion of Kuwait, then proceded to do so, then decided the terms of the cease fire. The UN would be a lot more relevant if it was the US, or could speak for the US, but since it isn't and can't it wasn't much more then a label or "rubber stampt" put on the operation, that would have happened if it didn't exist, or even if most of its members and its staff opposed the action. The UN only had any relevance by going along with the US policy. The US set the policy and then implimented it.

Tim
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