RE: New United Nations Hu
Personally I find that the only real complaints most folks can bring against the UN are pure talking points, plain and simple
A body such as the UN is necessary in these times of "free trade" and "pre-emptive wars" (or for that matter, wars fought undeclared against concepts rather than nations)
And to the Neo-Cans- why is it that North Korea isn't in the crosshairs right now?? By all accounts I have read from the propaganda mill, they already HAVE nukes (ask your average American and I think you'd find that most of the uninformed poulation believes this to be true.. likely the same about Iran, but whatever)
Korea doesn't have at least ONE resource (and remember the PNAC here, and the aims set out in their primary document) that Iran has, so despite the more imminent threat posed by North Korea (and I'm playing devils advocate here, I don't see a strike against North American civilians in a military sense from either nation as being a possibility unless either were to be struck "pre-emptively" first) the war drums are being beaten for the coming attempt on Iran....
I really hope we get "invited" to take part, since we lost out LARGE when we failed to join the Freedom Spreading in Iraq and we really have got to do something to get back in the good books....
If there really were a benevolent and omnipresent agency such as the UN is supposed to represent (rather than the Western-power-shackled entity we have now) I think there would already be charges laid against the Western media for fearmongering or some such thing, international defamation at the very least....
Here's hoping one day we get what we really need on this planet