Is there any point in global peace efforts by useing international meditation organisations like the UN?
In a very important sense the UN Security Council was right on Iraq all along, and a majority of Americans wish that we’d listened to the UN in the first place. Maybe staying with the UN would have been in our interests all along. They correctly observed that the US had not made its case for invasion sufficiently, and the reason turned out to be because its case couldn’t be made. However, they also deeply screwed up by giving the impression that the case could not have been made, no matter how good the evidence. Even if they were right, they were still wrong. It forms a pattern with other decisions where one or two permanent Security Council members blocked the others (and we’ve done it ourselves) to make the organization seem non-functional. And that’s too bad. At the very least it serves as an important sanity check. The US failed to take advantage of the sanity check that the rest of the UN was screaming at us, and now we’re unhappy about the quagmire we’re in. It’s impossible to sa
