Zamunda

To any of you out there who read the recent thread on the positive sides of Iraq, let me introduce myself. bullzam was banned because he wasn't yet 18, and I'm one of his friends at school so I decided to continue on an important aspect of his article, the UN and US foreign policy. And by the way, I am 18. I think by now that thread has gotten a little off the topic, and I'd like to propose the downsides of Iraq... As was said, Iraq is a victory for national security, perhaps, but I do think it was the culmination of a loss in terms of our foreign policy, here's why:
The UN was about as alive and well as my dead grandmother before Iraq, and I think We have started to put the headstone in place now. Our blatant show of disregard for their organization has crippled them because no one will listen their orders for sure. I've seen this first hand in Africa, how hard it is for UN officials to impose anything on foreign powers. Of course, I don't think it would've made much difference whether or not we disobeyed them, they were crumbling anyway, but we could've tried to more in the past to support the UN. Unfortunately I don't think we realized how powerful of a tool the UN could be. With a powerful UN to "police" the world on the premise of human rights, we wouldn't have had to enter afghanistan or Iraq on our own and reap the great love we've gotten from many middle eastern occupants in the process. If the UN was powerful, not only would many developing nations benefit from their aid, but they could even help in the fight against global terrorirsm.
Anyway, I've rambled long enough, and I'm interested if any one else out there believes, as I do, that the UN or some other world organisation could be a very necessary tool to preserve peace and development in the coming century... and that America should take this seriously