Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00071)

Morten Nymann Olesen wrote:
> A United Nations, which since 1945/1948 has dared - in the name of peace -
> to deny - ANY Middle Eastern country to have a PERMANENT seat in the United
> Nations Security Counsil (--- The mini world Government ! ---). A United
> Nations which has as its highest founded duty - to seek the creation of
> peace on this Planet. --- How fake can one be ?
OK, it MIGHT help to know a LITTLE bit about the theory on which the 
United Nations was created, which might also explain why it needs 
modification.

The United Nations was designed to be a world diplomatic body, NOT a 
world governing body. U.N. resolutions are recommendations only; they 
only have the force of international law when backed by treaty (where 
the nations involved have promised to abide by said resolutions). It WAS 
decided that, sometimes, the U.N. would need to use military force. 
However, there was a problem with allowing the whole U.N. to do this. 
With one nation, one vote, a small minority of the world's population, 
who would not need to provide a single soldier, could order around the 
military of the other nations. It's a lot easier to send other people to 
potential deaths than it is to send your own. Therefore, the Security 
Council was made up of those nations who would have to provide the bulk 
of the military forces.

The problem is that the entire process was based on the political 
situation of the world right after World War II. Things have changed 
greatly since then. The U.N. needs to be restructured in a more flexible 
format, that can change with the times. And some methodology must be put 
in place to prevent the incredible amount of corruption that takes place 
due to tiny, petty dictatorships having the same vote as huge (or even 
medium sized) democracies and democratic republics. Otherwise, you will 
see resolutions like, "The citizens of the United States and China have 
to give up half their incomes to be distributed among these following 
countries" (kind of like the Kyoto Agreement).