Quote Originally Posted by daihashi

my problem with this is that everyone seems to ignore the fact that many other nations participate in the ousting of governments and replacing the head figures with someone of similar mind.

I do not think this is right, but I hate seeing the world look at America as we are the root of all evil.

I feel President Bush has really made America look far worse than we actually are.

You're right, it is simply too weak to perform it's job. The UN never acts on it's own and part of the problem is because of the countries that participate in it. Countries like the US, Russia, China, Britain all have huge sway in the UN. The only way you are going to remove personal interest and favoritism in the UN is to remove the countries from the UN.

I think the UN would work better as a seperate entity. Make it a world governing group as opposed to a group of nations who have different agendas and will work against each other. This is counter productive.

It could be setup similar to a State government vs federal government. Meaning let the UN handle all the big world issues and let the countries continue to handle any domestic issues themselves (within reason).

This would be hard to setup and may not even be feasible, but this is the only way I could see the UN working properly. As it stands now the UN cannot do it's own job because of people working against each other.
Absolutely agree! With many things said.
I understand your problem with people overlooking other actions similar to the US, like removing governments, etc. I know Putin has a series of puppet countries too. And China, etc. Evvvvveryone has issues, like I said. But its the superpower status that makes it take the forefront dude. People rag on you guys the most cause you're on top. Its just a way of life, so don't be angry about it. America just needs someone in office who can restore it to the proper principles it was founded on.

I agree your current president has done much to smear your reputation worldwide. What with openly declaring about 3 reasons for going in and making the mess that is Iraq, rendition, patriot act, Guantanamo, claiming to be following rules of war and caring about human rights but hasn't signed on to any sort of international legislation or justice because it doesn't want its crimes to be exposed, mistreating the veterans when they come home. Oh but wait!!! He quit GOLFING!!!! Come on man, how do you expect the world not to laugh a bit. Or not to mock that. And some people downright hate that. The impact around the world is something I don't think many of you understand because you live there and not outside.
That said I feel bad that he has made your reputation go to squat. I'm sorry to say that, but he has. And thats why the world so eagerly awaits and follows every nanosecond of this seemingly 40 year campaign for the next president. We all want the great America back.

I'm right on par with everything you said about the UN. And yes the problem is countries like Russia and China.
But the hostilities felt when the world took sides after WW2 made it necessary. If we didn't put Russia and China on the security council, we wouldn't have even come this far. That was the only way to balance...give them a share of the pie.
The international community reminds me of a group of children in a schoolyard...and until they mature a bit, we will never form some civilized, respectable and responsible world organization which peacefully regulates. If we can't get along however, there is a solution.
Perhaps it would be better if we just all had our own schoolyard, and we remained isolated from all the other ones. If we were all isolationist, we wouldn't need to worry about what the hell is going on in everyone else's backyard. Catching up to globalization politically, is possibly the hardest obstacle we've yet to face, imo.
The international community has become too interconnected through globalization and we need to figure out how to rationally get along with each other. Political globalization sucks!