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Originally Posted by sneddog
You need to read that Rand report a little closer. When the UN left it did not leaven democracies in place, but dictators in most cases who were able to keep the peace for a while, but at what price to the people of those lands?
The current crisis in Africa is largely a UN failure, the UN has been in nearly every nation there that is currently in crisis at sometime or another.
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What I did read, is that the more of the UN led nation-building exercises were at peace, than were the same number of US led nation-building exercises.
If you had read the report better, you would have understood the difference between the moral authority of the rule of law by an institution authorized to such purposes, versus the lack of such authority by an individual state engaging in political opportunism for short term gain.
Why are we not funding more UN efforts, at lower cost to the US, instead of engaging in foreign entanglements, and then complaining about it afterwards, when some of the foreign states object to our encroachment on their state's rights and sovereignty?