quotations about the United Nations
The main tool available for the international community to try to reduce bloodshed -- the $8 billion-a-year United Nations peace-keeping forces -- are increasingly overstretched and ineffectual.
MARC CHAMPION
"Mexico is now world's deadliest conflict zone after Syria, survey finds", Boston Globe, May 9, 2017
Since its formation, there has been no World War III. Self-determination has replaced colonialism and millions have been freed. Diseases have been conquered, extreme poverty reduced. Today there is far more awareness about human rights and international law.
JOSÉ RAMOS-HORTA
"Reviving the Spirit of the UN Charter", Huffington Post, April 23, 2017
What the U.N. needs, first and foremost, is firm political commitment from the member states, and particularly the Security Council, to provide it with effective and better equipped forces that could be more costly under certain circumstances but are able to deliver results as a credible deterrent.
HITOKI DEN
"U.N. credibility is at stake", Japan Times, April 18
Basically, the only thing the United Nations has done somewhat well is to provide limited humanitarian aid during natural disasters or epidemics.
JOHN SHIELDS
"The United Nations is a good idea gone bad", Sonoran News, May 9, 2017
Supra-national organizations nearly always fail, with NATO during the Cold War being, perhaps, the only exception. The United Nations is a monstrosity, the League of Nations was a farce, and the European Union is an idea whose time is past. Nations are real things connected to culture and history and values and interests. The peaceful assertion of that culture and history and those values and interests is not a threat to peace, but the best promise of peace.
BRUCE WALKER
"What Marine Le Pen Is Really About", American Thinker, April 26, 2017