moshe malk wrote:

> The UN? Where have you bee living the last 50 years?
> What conflict did the UN ever manage well? When good did the UN ever
> do?
> Let's face it, the UN is an incompetant, corrupt, anti-American
> organization. That would be a grave mistake to give them control over
> the aftermath. Maybe going into Iraq was not a good idea, but once we
> are in there we have to stay so as not to invite worst tests of our
> resolve in the future.


Actually, the UN has had successes. East Timor is a recent one. For
more on this, there was a lengthy article in last Sunday's NT Times
Magazine on this very subject. The article (titled "Making Sense of the
Mission") discusses how difficult these tasks are. The URL is...

<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/11/magazine/11PEACE.html>

(registration may be required)

Also in the news today is that the US has decided to adopt the United
Nation's plan for IRAQ. I wonder why they did that?

<http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news...nWGU3VAI&refer
=uk>

<http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentSe...toryFT/FullSto
ry&c=StoryFT&cid=1079420404700>


Cheers,

Ken Prager

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