Divided we stand - "United" we're not..YET.
Just a brief thought.
Happy 60th Birthday, United Nations. It was formally inaugurated by 29 nation-states at the US State Department. Ironic, isn't it? Its greatest patron has become its greatest critic...
Yet many still see the UN as "bruised but intact" and "indispensable". Say what you like about it, many nation-states feel awkward? uneasy? acting without its sanction.
It is to its credit that it somehow emerged after the Cold War paralysis, to act more often in the last 15 years than it did since 1945. For an ideal that suffers from the identity crisis of - "United what? United IN what? United FOR what? United HOW?" , it also suffers from the eternal criticism of damned it if does, damned if it doesn't.
Perhaps it has just become a bad apple off a really good tree, that has along the way become rotten through the nepotistic and corrupt worms that infiltrate its core to eat the original idealism away. It is an interesting time for the UN and where it goes from here. Staying along its "midlife crisis" course is not an option. I desperately hope it chooses the path of reform, because i dread a future without the United Nations...
Happy 60th Birthday, United Nations. It was formally inaugurated by 29 nation-states at the US State Department. Ironic, isn't it? Its greatest patron has become its greatest critic...
Yet many still see the UN as "bruised but intact" and "indispensable". Say what you like about it, many nation-states feel awkward? uneasy? acting without its sanction.
It is to its credit that it somehow emerged after the Cold War paralysis, to act more often in the last 15 years than it did since 1945. For an ideal that suffers from the identity crisis of - "United what? United IN what? United FOR what? United HOW?" , it also suffers from the eternal criticism of damned it if does, damned if it doesn't.
Perhaps it has just become a bad apple off a really good tree, that has along the way become rotten through the nepotistic and corrupt worms that infiltrate its core to eat the original idealism away. It is an interesting time for the UN and where it goes from here. Staying along its "midlife crisis" course is not an option. I desperately hope it chooses the path of reform, because i dread a future without the United Nations...
posted by Balcancan at 10/24/2005
2 Comments:
Just slipping in lots of birthday love to you. Keep on celebrating, it's still your birthday week. Milk it!
With Love,
Disha
Oh Babes, i really miss some new blog entries....
Muagg Silka
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