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To: TimF who wrote (205230)	10/5/2004 3:14:52 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573857

That's a rather extreme position. I know. What authority would the UN have to do this? It should be one of the purposes of the UN. Many of the UN members including some of its more important members rule without a vote of their people, quite a few of these probably rule without the support of the majority of their people. A problem with the current UN structure. How would the UN do this? It doesn't have any forces. Much of the deployable combat power belongs to the US, do you want the US to invade country after country under UN mandate? I guess we better mobilize to world war two levels. (When we had a military more then a half dozen times bigger from a population about half its current level). Do we have to invade China? That would be pretty difficult even if the war doesn't go nuclear. I figure we would have to take out North Korea's government, but I wouldn't want to be in Seoul while that is happening. The US doesn't have to invade every non-democratic country next year. Transforming non-democracies to representative governments could be a 50-100 year goal, but I think it should clearly be expressed as the goal (preferably by the UN, if not, by the US and whatever coalition of countries agrees with the concept). Countries like North Korea which are the world's pariah states could be informed by the UN that they'd better transform themselves into a democracy within the next 10 years (with milestones and etc. along the way), or else they are going to get the Iraq treatment in 2014. After a few countries get the Iraq treatment, others will comply. One would have to hope that even a controlled country like China could get its democratic self together in 60 years (that's 3 generations of leadership - seems reasonable).