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UpsideDownFlag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 11:28 PM Original message |
i'm pissed at the UN right now. |
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Cobia (146 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
1. They allowed a bunch of people to be massacred in Burundi |
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Maple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
2. The UN is a committee |
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WMliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 11:44 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. nuff said right there |
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Djinn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 11:32 PM Response to Original message |
3. what do you want them to do |
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UpsideDownFlag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 11:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. have they pressured any member nations to do anything? |
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Cobia (146 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 11:35 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I heard 300 African troops were on there way |
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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 11:39 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Face it, without the US as a member willing to assist in the bartering |
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Cobia (146 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 11:42 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Those other nations are members of the UN |
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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 11:55 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Face it, we WERE the super power with the strongest human rights |
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K-W (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 11:59 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. You are whitewashing history. |
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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-17-04 10:03 AM Response to Reply #16 |
31. I appreciate what you are saying, but, I also know the "image" |
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Djinn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 11:47 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. nope |
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Cobia (146 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 11:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Ala Somalia |
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Wheelie_Alex (140 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
11. This is what pisses me off about the UN... |
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Cobia (146 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 11:52 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. US has the best trained soldiers and money |
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K-W (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 11:54 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. It cannot do anything without the US's blessing. |
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Cobia (146 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 11:55 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Or Russia, China, France, GB |
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Wheelie_Alex (140 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-17-04 12:04 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. I don't think the US... |
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K-W (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-17-04 12:07 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Where do you think the UN peacekeeping forces come from? |
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Wheelie_Alex (140 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-17-04 12:07 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. See what I mean? Useless! |
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K-W (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-17-04 12:09 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Well certainly, we need a true UN |
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Djinn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-17-04 12:10 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. easy to say from the safety of the US |
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K-W (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-17-04 12:13 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. good point, what if there was no UN |
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Wheelie_Alex (140 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-17-04 12:21 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. What good is the UN if when the US says no.. |
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Djinn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-17-04 12:27 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. what good is the UN?? |
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Wheelie_Alex (140 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-17-04 12:30 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. So then bitching about the US's inaction on this should cease. |
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K-W (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-17-04 12:29 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. They arent perfect, it doesnt mean they dont do some good. |
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Wheelie_Alex (140 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-17-04 12:32 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. They are not perfect, I know. |
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K-W (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-17-04 12:34 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Its not thier fault your expectations are too high. |
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Cobia (146 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-17-04 12:08 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. The UN already has troops in the Congo, Angola and elsewhere |
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tedzbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-17-04 12:36 AM Response to Original message |
30. Maybe it would help if the United States leaned on it more. |
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