In addition, the argument can backfire, because since the UN was formed, the
number of democracies has risen dramatically. At the time of the creation of the
UN, basically only the OECD countries were democracies. All of Latin America has
more or less become democratized since then, the British Emp
At 09:22 PM 10/23/2002, Marc wrote:
the UN Security Council). Nation states are dying as institutions, and
power is
flowing up to super-regions, and down to micro-regions, so the question
will come
to make even less and less sense as the new century unfolds, imo.
--
Marc A. Schindler
I agree,
I already responded. But I'll respond again. I don't believe the UN is the moral
authority of the world, so why on earth would I want to defend that position? I
took this as a deliberately provocative, rhetorical question on the part of
whoever originally wrote it, like asking when someone's going
Marc,
I'd love to hear your response to the following:
"When did the United Nations become the supreme moral authority of the world?
One might advance such a proposition if most of the organization were
represented by democratic governments, but that is not the case. Of the 191
nations in the Uni