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What happened, No_Ax?
Usually, your posts are factual and knowledgable; here, you seem to be throwing out baseless opinion that takes 17 seconds of Googling to refute! Why?

1. There were 35 peace keeping missions in the history of the UN; of those 16 are still running. The following were successful in preventing further conflict (not even conservatives in US would argue this):
UNFICYP (Cyprus - between Greeks and Turks)
UNPROFOR (Between Croatians and Serbs)
UNMEE (Ethiopians and Erritreans)
UNAMET (East Timor - brought about independence for the occupied land)

Many others were instrumental in bringing about peace agreements between warring parties.

2. Of the 172 peace settlements UN helped negotiate, 157 are still holding. That ain't all that bad... (definitely not all fell apart a few months later);

3. Had there not been UN in places like Namibia, Cambodia, Angola or South Africa, there would have never been free and fair elections. Another fact not disputed even by most conservative anti-UN zealots of the world.

Blah, blah, blah... same results, year after year; no longer they get the Nobel Prize for peace...
Posted by: Predrag Vasic   Posted on: 10/31/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Let me get this straight...  ShadeTree | 10/31/06
You got it  Bill4 | 10/31/06
UN is useless  ITTech001 | 10/31/06
Ironic  ITTech001 | 10/31/06
Most popular sport in America  Predrag Vasic | 10/31/06
Listen buddy....  techboy_z | 10/31/06
Very partiotic, no doubt; still no less wrong  Predrag Vasic | 10/31/06
No less wrong because it's not wrong at all.  techboy_z | 10/31/06
throwing around epithets  Predrag Vasic | 10/31/06
Few inaccuracies in the previous post, too  Predrag Vasic | 10/31/06
You see...  rapson | 10/31/06
I beg to differ  Predrag Vasic | 10/31/06
Ahem- now that's ridiculous Predrag...  banquo79 | 10/31/06
What Predrag also does not mention  John Zern | 10/31/06
Let's agree on this...  banquo79 | 10/31/06
Excellent post  Predrag Vasic | 10/31/06
Let's agree on this...  Oreamnos_americanus | 11/01/06
You need to reinvestigate  techboy_z | 10/31/06
Not so sure, as citations are missing  Predrag Vasic | 10/31/06
Ironic, isn't it, these EU countries  John Zern | 10/31/06
Almost...  techboy_z | 10/31/06
Darfur? Oil-for-Food???  Predrag Vasic | 10/31/06
Hey, look again...and stop lying.  techboy_z | 10/31/06
For your info.  ShadeTree | 11/01/06
It was going well until you hopped in.  I am Gorby | 11/01/06
Seconded.  HypnoToad | 10/31/06
China and people  Linux User 1 | 10/31/06
This is about making Big Boys Cry  mighetto | 10/31/06
Hey look: Frank's bashing MS and Bill Gates!!!  John Zern | 10/31/06
And note how...  rapson | 10/31/06
Bluntly stated, the UN must stay out of  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/31/06
How about.....  seosamh_z | 10/31/06
Please share with us one good thing they ...  ShadeTree | 10/31/06
UNICEF  seosamh_z | 10/31/06
No thanks.  techboy_z | 10/31/06
Say what?????  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/31/06
Say this...  Predrag Vasic | 10/31/06
Buwahahaha  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/31/06
What happened, No_Ax?  Predrag Vasic | 10/31/06
Buwahahaha  Oreamnos_americanus | 11/01/06
Trying reading  seosamh_z | 10/31/06
Yes  Tiggster | 10/31/06
Unfortunately you are correct.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/31/06
Do Not Get Out Of The U.N.  iwasbannedatci | 10/31/06
It wouldn't matter....  techboy_z | 11/01/06
The US is a permanent member of the UN Security Council.  B.O.F.H. | 10/31/06
Must have been living under a rock...  Predrag Vasic | 10/31/06
Listing that they were given a controversial ...  ShadeTree | 10/31/06
Controversial???  Predrag Vasic | 10/31/06
what about its middle east policy?  Tiggster | 10/31/06
60 years ago maybe, but not today.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/31/06
Actually, today, more than ever...  Predrag Vasic | 10/31/06
Agreed...lets talk education  banquo79 | 10/31/06
To Predrag and banquo79....  techboy_z | 10/31/06
Predrag, how about looking at it from a different perspective?  thelemite | 11/01/06
Laughable!  ShadeTree | 11/01/06
Hey Thelemite, a lot of countries...  I am Gorby | 11/01/06
Gorby......  thelemite | 11/02/06
Even thoug the US is a member?  B.O.F.H. | 10/31/06
so anything that offends, whether true or not, is illegal? that goes  wessonjoe | 10/31/06
Your statement is horrid, your point correct.  banquo79 | 10/31/06
Talk about "Hypocritical"  John Zern | 10/31/06
I noticed that too  rapson | 10/31/06
To answer the Irish Delegate  wolf_z | 10/31/06
I could go for that  fmcgowan | 10/31/06
Improvement ?  perryroyce@... | 10/31/06
The best lies...  multanihl | 10/31/06
Don't sweat it.  multanihl | 10/31/06
Actually, world could blast U.N. for its laxed approach to China  Boot_Agnostic | 11/05/06

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