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Derek: At St. John's, I once participated, as an alumnus, in a community seminar on the U.N, following a talk by Jeane Kirkpatrick. Most of the other participants were of course horrified by my advancing serious criticisms of the United Nations, about which they knew little, but for which they had a sentimental attachment. What particularly horrified them, but also paralyzed them, was the idea that an organization encompassing so many divergent interests, with not even an underlying cultural consensus, would not be able to take decisive action on anything. They had entertained a serious faith that someday the United Nations would be capable of being the world's policeman, and would therefore supercede Great Power politics! I suggested that that day might come when there was sufficient cultural homogeneity for a true world government, but that it was not imminent:-)... |
