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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SSG Edward Tilton
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OK with me, it tries
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MSG John Duchesneau
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The UN is good for what it is good for and not good for anything else.
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MSG Louis Alexander
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As in any political environment the primary concern is overall power. Unlike their original humble beginnings of working towards promoting international cooperation as a unified entity to prevent global war, sickness and acts of inhumanity, they have evolved into a global network of self-righteous, socialistic, progressive, liberal idealists whose only ambition to build personal wealth and prestige at the expense of the global community. Take for instance the Woman’s rights council of the United Nations. Leading the counsel is an Islamic nation (Saudi Arabia) notorious for suppressing the same rights they are suppose to upholding. Or the political posturing of invading the sovereignty of independent Constitutional countries in order to bring them one step closer to globalization controlled by the UN. Case in point: In February 2013, Barack Obama without coordinating with the U.S. Congress, and acting on his on behalf, made a commitment with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) announcing the creation of a “Civilian Weapons Confiscation Study Group” (CWCSG) intended to foster the goal of facilitating the passage of “National Laws” in member nations to “Disarm Civilians”. Barack Obama enrolled the United States in this program as a member nation without Congressional approval. This pact unknown to the American people, has been quietly recruiting United Nations Disarmament Officer’s (UNDO), to occupy American cities and towns which Obama designated as uncontrollable areas and has ignored the U.S. Constitution and the 4th Amendment and looked upon it as a minor infraction, authorizing the United Nations to eventually occupy heavily populated cities such as Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Miami etc. and to forcefully if necessary, begin confiscating civilian weapons. The undermining of a nations sovereignty and constitutional declaration is irrelevant to the UN’s quest of global control. So, can the United Nations once again become the intergovernmental organization to promote international cooperation?
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PO3 J.W. Nelson
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The current structure of the UN is definitely in severe need of re-structuring, and it's leadership needs to either go off the trend of siding with terrorists nations or they need to be replaced, period !!
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SSgt Boyd Herrst
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It definitely needs some reorganizing.. too many despot type nations in-charge of a certain Council because it seems when the U..Went in to do s’thing w/o going through them they wanted to penalize our country even tough what we did turned out good( a reason why they wanted to penalize us a certain NGO (hamas?, maybe) took a big loss of it’s ‘agents’ more like goons.. that’s just one sit-rep, another one was when those somalies
Took that ship (Mersk,Alabama)and our S.E.A.L.S. Made hamburger of them.. “we didn’t follow Proper diplomatic ritual”. There was no time to play silly put the right block in the right slot game, Our S.E.A.L.S. Had to get there .. as in ‘NOW!’
All they wanted was so those Somali pirates could capture the M-A ship and make Mersk and the U.S. Pay a humongous ransom. It’s gotten to be old hat.. that council needs busting up, or we’ll be paying ransoms forever... We can’t pull out because we have to stay in to keep an eye on what’s going on so they
Can’t go run roughshod over us and slap us around like a unloved step-child..
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SGT Gregory Yelland
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I think it needs to be revamped, ALL nations should be included and it should be run under the democratic process. Yes, that would make it a WORLD government, however I don't believe any one nation has the right to interfere in how other nations govern themselves. As an example: I don't believe we had the right to attack and remove Hussain. Sure, he was using chemical weapons ON HIS OWN PEOPLE, and yes he was 'playing' with the inspection teams, and yes his using Hammurabic Law was extreme punishment (by our standards), but that was the law of HIS country. WE had no right to object. However, a consensus by the United Nations and decision by them to take action would have been more appropriate as one of their concerns should be the rights of ALL people of ALL nations. Other nation vs other nation situations; Viet Nam for example should have been a U.N. action, not a U.S one, Human Rights in other countries would be addressed by the U.S thru the U.N not around them and yes that would mean we would attach military forces to the U.N Personally, I would disband NATO and combine them with the U.N. I also think the U.S. Military needs be concerned with defending the U.S and it's citizens ONLY.
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CPT Treasurer, Director
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Good read to ponder on!
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SSgt Jimmy Jackson
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Money pit. Ineffective, Does anyone really respect their sanctions?
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SPC Douglas Bolton
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs It has got to change. They allow a couple big countries to veto everything.
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CW3 Chief Of Police
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President Trump was correct to state that the UN has not lived up to its potential. It is a bloated bureaucracy and gives places like Saudi Arabia and Cuba seats on the human rights/women's rights committees.
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