UN & Iraq-Good for Everybody?

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John Uskglass

Venerable Relic of the Wastes
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20030913/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_iraq_6
Finally, this is the best news sense the proposed $86b increase in spending. Hurahh! While I think that the hype over just how chaotic Iraq is right now just goes to show the slant of the media, I think that serious UN involvement would be benifical for everyone, with the emergance of a serious Democratic Arab nation with a population of over a million, and eventually the emergance of a whole new front on the global market.
Agree?
 
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I agree with Kharn..

What are you trying to say??
 
Yes, I absolutely and fully do believe that the UN should get involved with Iraq. Now that the USA has alrady invaded it, there is little use in saying that the USA shouldn't have done it. Now the focus should be on making Iraq a decent country again. This should be done with UN involvement, simply because that will make the new Iraq at least LOOK like being free from US domination. It'll hopefully also provide a more impartial influence in creating a new government, which isn't USA focused. I believe that Iraq should start with an absolutely clean slate, free from any influence and free to form it's own government and ideas. And free to sell their oil to whoever they want.
 
Sander said:
Yes, I absolutely and fully do believe that the UN should get involved with Iraq. Now that the USA has alrady invaded it, there is little use in saying that the USA shouldn't have done it. Now the focus should be on making Iraq a decent country again. This should be done with UN involvement, simply because that will make the new Iraq at least LOOK like being free from US domination. It'll hopefully also provide a more impartial influence in creating a new government, which isn't USA focused. I believe that Iraq should start with an absolutely clean slate, free from any influence and free to form it's own government and ideas. And free to sell their oil to whoever they want.
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Agree, but I don't think attributing the main role in reforming Iraq to the UN is possible anymore, mostly because all the main sectors of the country's economy have already been parceled and split between the "coalition" countries that supported the war...

If, however, someone proves me wrong, I'd be delighted to hear the situation *maybe isn't as f*** up as I thought.
 
By "decent government" I pray you mean "the first deacent Government sense the Zoastrians where kicked out", and not to imply that we where the big bad guys and they where the Mid Eastern equivelent to Swizerland.
People who think that pure democracies are possible in the Mid East right now are wrong. At the very least you have to approach it like Turkey until last year- Democratic outside of "Muslim" parties, and at worst like Tunisia, with the "any color they want on a Model T as long as it is Black" democracy. I am not saying that all parties must be moddeled after the US/Britan, just that some of the more extreme groups should be supressed by any means.
 
Sander said:
Yes, I absolutely and fully do believe that the UN should get involved with Iraq. Now that the USA has alrady invaded it, there is little use in saying that the USA shouldn't have done it. Now the focus should be on making Iraq a decent country again. This should be done with UN involvement, simply because that will make the new Iraq at least LOOK like being free from US domination. It'll hopefully also provide a more impartial influence in creating a new government, which isn't USA focused. I believe that Iraq should start with an absolutely clean slate, free from any influence and free to form it's own government and ideas. And free to sell their oil to whoever they want.
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Agreed. The US may have been wrong in attacking, but the problem now is rebuilding Iraq.
 
I am cool with the UN being there. Actually, I think the UN should have been there long ago.
 
I'd like to hear what you folks think the UN should do in Iraq?

What role should it play and how should it do it?
 
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