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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
It is most assuredly because of US undermining, not a 'chicken or the egg' argument, as you put it. The UN is only applicable to american policy when it is being used as a tool of that foreign policy, any other time the US simply ignores it.
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Sounds exactly what other countries do too.
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Another example is the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, and I could go on and on.
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You mean all of those resolutions demanding that Iraq do specific actions that they ignored? All those attempts for the US to try and get the UN to specify and act on the warnings of "serious consequences"? (I don't want to get into another US / Iraq war discussion)
The UN's inability to act is causing the US's undermining. Even when they threaten, they don't actually threaten. It is a chicken and egg. If the UN would/could back up its words, it would be a much more useful tool. Since it can't / won't, it will continue to be ignored.
The UN is useful for getting to the "You've been bad.. stop it" stage. It's pretty much useless for anything further than that.