Posted on Aug 30, 2015
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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Has the United Nations outlived its usefulness in World Order or does it need to be reorganized?

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 following the Second World War to prevent another such conflict. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193. The headquarters of the United Nations is in Manhattan, New York City, and experiences extraterritoriality.

Do we give the institution more power or do we dismantle it?

Do we come up with a new World Organization that brings the countries together for world issues and what does that look like?

Do we go back to the days before the United Nations and the League of Nations in 1920 prior to WW1 and let each country work out their own issues, create its own treaties and alliances, and solve its own problems (and if another country comes to their aid so be it)?

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I can't tell you what I know, I can only tell you what I think or feel. I know the history of the creation of the UN, it's Charter and what it's supposed to do, but I see no results. The only serious accomplishment I've seen is our tax dollars going in and nothing substantial coming out. My opinion thusly is to dismantle the UN and go back to the League of Nations format.
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SPC Brian Stephens
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If the UN's mandate is as Senator Dianne Feinstein said today to prevent wars, then hasn't it done suuuuuuuuuuuch a "GOOD JOB!" since its founding in the 1940s? What wars have they stopped? Communist aggression in the Balkans? Burma? The Red Chinese Revolution? The Korean War? Vietnam? Cuba? Chile? The war in Afghanistan? Iraq-Iran War? Persian Gulf War? Soviet expansion? Syria?
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SFC Dave Beran
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Disbanned. All the IDs sent home.
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SGT Tim Fridley
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My point of view is that we should at least cut back on our funding of it until it's mission is returned to what it was designed to do and also move it from our country where they have turned it into a vacation destination instead of actually getting any work done ( put it in Europe or the Middle East somewhere).
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SPC Louis Miller
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There has been much debate on the functionality of this organization. In terms of its ability from past to present, there is STILL a major issue that continually is devoid of action and correction. That issue is of the organization continuously functioning (each and every sector of it) as segments that need to be unilateral and not be obliged to the charters and/or multitudes of processes that formed it in the first place.

Reorganization is a must. Dismantling will not solve the evolving conflicts that are tantamount to ending civilization. Effectuating the changes needed are processes that have been continuous and ongoing since the Koren War. In the view of its role, all who have bore witness to any functionality have seen it (UN) only be effective in times of multiple country large scale conflict and its purpose was to inhibit that in the first place. Again, higher level administrative research for resolve is in need if the organization is to be an actual forum of world change. Inasmuch, all viewpoints in these threads are valid. Moreover, the concern I have is who will have them go to the "next level" and get forwarded for proper representation of viewing in promoting the change? As my father would say, "Talk is cheap."


Be encouraged
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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Reorganizing might help them.
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Well ok you can speak ill of the U.N. and what not but I have to ask this what's your proposal for a replacement. It's got to be replaced by something and if your going to talk big you better have a clearly superior idea otherwise it's just talk.
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SGT Scott Bell
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yes
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1SG Kenneth Talkington Sr
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When I was in grade school I asked my grandfather what the purpose of the United Nations. He told me that it was an organization that allowed grown men and women play God. I was established to keep us from having another World War. But it has been bastardized to the point where it is nothing more than a pathway for a world government. We need to get this organization out of the United States. We need to cut off all funding for its support. We need to move all these so called diplomats back to where they belong. Most of them are spies anyway. They solve no world issues. They in fact more often then not make them worse. They have not business trying to disarm American citizens or trying to make laws that will be governed by them. So in my humble estimation dismantle this institutions immediately.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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1SG Kenneth Talkington Sr Your Granfather sounded like a really neat person. Good response!
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1SG Kenneth Talkington Sr
1SG Kenneth Talkington Sr
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He was. Kept me out of prison and made me get an education. I miss him dearly.
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CW3 Kevin Storm
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Can we move it to Switzerland?
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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CW3 Kevin Storm How about the North Pole!
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CW3 Kevin Storm
CW3 Kevin Storm
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs - Sir, why you got to screw with the polar bears like that? What did they ever do to you?
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