UN flaws just human flaws… for now!

Dean Esmay gives his 3 cents about the John Bolton appointment as UN ambassador:

I for one would be pleased to see Bolton go to the UN breathing fire, a sword in one hand and a gun in the other. Diplomacy is not always about being nice. Sometimes it is, sometimes it’s the exact opposite. Ultimately, it’s about getting what you want. In the case of the UN, we need reform of that badly corrupt den of oppressors, and it’s time that we had someone who told the bald truth to them. I don’t care how unpopular Bolton is with the thugs and tyrants who make up the majority of that body–indeed, if he’s popular with those people, he’s not doing any good at all so far as I’m concerned.

In short: I don’t see this nomination hurting the President, nor the country. I think the Senators who opposed him look like toadies and suckups to a corrupt, vile organization. It also looks like cheap partisan point-scoring to me. Opposing his nomination by denying the man a vote hurts them in my eyes.

Ol’ Dean is right. The nomination doesn’t hurt the President nor our lovely and talented USA. Heck, it doesn’t hurt the UN. In fact, the John Bolton appointment is just a pebble being dropped in a foul and stinking ocean. The United Nations has serious flaws cause we humans have serious flaws, for now. The UN doesn’t stand a chance because it is an organization that requires some of the highest levels of critical thinking and emotional maturity. And for now, we humans lack the ability to sustain those high levels over periods of time.

Just look at the UN. This is uber society. Every ambassador comes from a country with their own hopes, dreams, agendas, and schemes. They all then get together in a big room as the General Assembly. All these “individual social galaxies” converging into one big galaxy to talk about and work on the world’s issues? Then a select few social galaxies belong to Security Council who’s charter is this:

- to maintain international peace and security in accordance with the principles and purposes of the United Nations;
- to investigate any dispute or situation which mightlead to international friction;
- to recommend methods of adjusting such disputes or the terms of settlement;
- to formulate plans for the establishment of a system to regulate armaments;
- to determine the existence of a threat to the peace or act of aggression and to recommend what action should be taken;
- to call on Members to apply economic sanctions and other measures not involving the use of force to prevent or stop aggression;
- to take military action against an aggressor;
- to recommend the admission of new Members;
- to exercise the trusteeship functions of the United Nations in “strategic areas”;
- to recommend to the GeneralAssembly the appointment of the Secretary-General and, together with the Assembly, to elect the Judges of the International Court of Justice.

WHOA! And to complicate things further, some of the social galaxies like each other and others don’t. We then top it off with one social galaxy being appointed as the Secretary-General. Need I say more? Yes I’ll say a little bit more.

Within each social galaxy are stars, planets, nebula, comets, quasars, black holes, and other anomolies. They are all pushing and pulling, orbiting around, destroying, recreating, and changing each other. Each ambassador brings that to the table with other ambassadors for interaction. Spare me. Look how much difficulty we have interacting within our own families at times? Magnify that on a world stage then… the highest levels of critical thinking and emotional maturity are definately needed.

I used the words “for now” because I truly feel we will eventually evolve to deal with each other better. Call it natural progression. That’s why I think the smart thing to do now is dissolve the UN totally. We must come up with world organizations that better suit the current level of human development and build from there. Let’s not be silly and let’s be real. I know that UN logo and the vision brings out the utopian in some of us (me included) but you have to crawl before you walk.

[zing! to Dean Esmay]

UPDATE!

Actually critical thinking and emotional maturity is really needed within countries first. Some of the things that happen within countries (ours included) just sets by brain swinging.

One Response to “UN flaws just human flaws… for now!”

1. Marcy says:

   August 3, 2005 at 11:35 am

   T-Steel, you have damn near convinced me that the UN needs to be dissolved. your reasoning makes more sense to me than some of the other half-cocked reasons I’ve heard. The need for our thinking to evolve more is compelling.