Do you want it transformed?
Transformed?? Hmmm.. semantic trap??
Reformed, yes.
Transformed connotates something else that I don't think we're quite ready for as a diverse global population.
The UN is the framework for a global conferacy, predecessor to global Federalism.
However, a confederacy, by design, requires its members to have a voluntary adherence to the administration and policies of that confederacy. Thus, members of this confederacy must be carefully screened and selected to ensure that ALL members share common moral and political principles.
The problem with the UN was that we made the fatal mistake in believing that including Russia as a permanent member of the security council would entice them to become cooperative members of that confederacy, which they obviously have not been until the fall of the communism (even now they are "democratic" in name only while ruled by a corrupt oligarchy).
China was incorporated in the UN because the US recognised it was a growing power, and nice counterbalance to Russia's presence, which it was until Mao's revolution.
We, the US and the other post-WWII democracies, created the UN as a means to preserve and promote the concept of democracy and freedom. It WAS NOT CREATED to permit rogue authoritarian/totalitarian states to stymie and disrupt the intentions of the UN charter.
You simply don't hand the reigns of power to those who are engaged in attempting to destroy and manipulate that power for their own non-democratic interests.
By granting permanent voting status to Russian and China, guaranteed that both would abuse that priviledge.
We gave them equal status, when politically speaking neither were, OR ARE, politically equal to the western democracies.
So you all have to tell me whether of not the UN, in its current form, is a sham or crippled organization.
But I certainly feel confident that NATO and the UN did not come to this decision to use force against Serbia lightly. It has been argued, debated, and discussed to exasperation for the past 6+ years.
Regards,
Ron |
