Perhaps you should say that to the families of all the
US servicemen who are going to loose their lives because
their president seems perfectly oblivious to the fact
that he has sent them to war:

He's far from oblivious. He's been saying since May that Iraq is a dangerous
place.

It ponders my mind what "national security" you feel
the US has in Iraq.

I already spelled that out for you. Possible chemical and biological weapons
and ties to international terrorists. It was a combination we could not allow
to continue and since it was apparent the UN, nor anyone else was going to do
anything about it, we did.

"The United States, as the world knows, will never start
a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war.
This generation of Americans has already had enough -
more than enough - of war and hate and oppression."

John F. Kennedy

You quote perhaps one of the most corrupt Presidents the US had in the 20th
Century. Vietnam, Berlin, Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, oh yeah
that JFK he was a saint. LOL.

And europe is sooooo good at that. Remember the Congo?
India?, etc.?

Exactly, and one should expect the US to learn from that.
Europe did.

Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo? Doesn't sound like you learned too well.

Suffice
to say the UN has played a crucial role in maintaining
peace and security and promoting human rights, economic
and social development and human rights ever since its
incarnation.

The existance of the UN has not benifited US national security to a significant
enough degree for most Americans to really care for the organization. They
lost what good will I had toward them when they waited five days to denounce
the 9/11 attacks. Hell, I think Iran spoke out sooner.

The US is an important member, which seems to indicate
its importance to US politics as well.


Negative. Just my opinion, but I believe if the UN fails to assist in Iraq,
that public opinion will turn to the point of forcing the US to withdraw
*slowly* from the UN. As far as most Americans are concerned, the UN is at
best an irrelevent organization, at worst its an anti-US organization.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"