GePap, Yes it is the United Nations. All independent governements are welcome, no matter what kind they are. The UN approaches world security issues with only one goal, ending wars, without regard to whether a war is just or not. But, whether a war is just depends on value judgments, such as whether democracy is preferrable to communism. Since the UN cannot make those judgments, the UN cannot, IMHO, judge.
We need and interantional organization committed to democracy and human rights. The UN is incapable of being that organization. We need to end it and replace it with an organization, like NATO, who members are limited to democracies with certain standards of human rights, and whose purpose is to promote the spread of democracies and human rights in the world.
As to your point on the reasons for Iraq's wars in 1980 and 1990, I made the point earlier in a different thread that offensive wars, in order to be just, should ordinarily be conducted by a coalition of nations. In some measure, Iraq had that coalition in its 1980 war against Iran when the Gulf States and the US backed it.
1990, though, was clearly different.
We need and interantional organization committed to democracy and human rights. The UN is incapable of being that organization. We need to end it and replace it with an organization, like NATO, who members are limited to democracies with certain standards of human rights, and whose purpose is to promote the spread of democracies and human rights in the world.
As to your point on the reasons for Iraq's wars in 1980 and 1990, I made the point earlier in a different thread that offensive wars, in order to be just, should ordinarily be conducted by a coalition of nations. In some measure, Iraq had that coalition in its 1980 war against Iran when the Gulf States and the US backed it.
1990, though, was clearly different.
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