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Originally Posted by PostandIn
I've always thought the UN should be re-purposed as a global intervention force that targets basket case country's and deposes corrupt governments, bureaucracy, military, police, courts, etc. Then as a long-term (20 - 30 years) project, rebuilds, trains and stewards a younger generation to lead the country with democratic principles and rule-of-law. Like the Peace Corps with a big stick. They could start with Myanmar or Venezuela.
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The UN already does have the power to do much of that, but just requires unanimous the Security Counsel members with veto power, not to exercise that power.
The 1990 Iraq invasion is a good example of when the veto possessing nations agreed though. Even then, the resolution was only to remove Iraq from Kuwait by "any means", not to remove the leader of Iraq. The US had to do some serious pocket greasing to get this resolution through.
Currently most military intervention is stopped by the veto powers. I can't imagine what would happen if there was some kind of independent UN body, who could act militarily. If you hate the UN now, why would you want to give them the power to take out entire governments?