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To: Elroy who wrote (205243)	10/5/2004 5:12:19 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573902

What authority would the UN have to do this? It should be one of the purposes of the UN. That doesn't really answer the question. I could see an argument that no authority is needed because there is no international government or governing authority so participants in the international arena (including countries and the UN) could do whatever they want or at least whatever they have not agreed not to do, but most people who promote a more active UN also argue that wars by individual countries can be "illegal" if they don't have UN sanction. 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 is it going to change. The current members would have to vote on a change, or you would have to start a new organization. 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. I'm not sure North Korea would cave. Iraq didn't cave until it was actually invaded and it was weaker and didn't have nukes. Also I don't think you would get countries like China, France, Russia, and South Korea to accept such a demand. China would oppose it, and South Korea would be too nervous about the damage a war would cause. Even in the US it could be hard to get any support for such an invasion. If you are just wishing that enough governments and populations would line up behind such a policy you might as well just wish that the totalitarian or authoritarian governments spontaneously convert to democracy. Tim