its not necessarily on their part..
we can't blame the failures of the U.N. w/o blaming ourselves
you gotta remember that we basically created it in the first place, but when we ourselves started going outside of it, the other members took note and played the same game...
at teh same time, think of it as the Articles of Confederation in U.S. history...
It was like the Congress of then - basically a forum of discussion w/ no actual pwoers to declare war, tax, etc. - because of the weak weak WEAK executive branch.
In this case, the UN is the same way - its executive power is severlye weakened (not to mention recent arguments between countries esp. in the security council has only weakened it).
IMO a system like the UN is a good idea - the thing is, it needs to be stronger to enforce its ideas.
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