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A Lack Of Resolve.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
United Nations: What use is a global peace organization that won't (or can't?) enforce its own rules? The fair-minded would have to answer, "Not much."
The U.N. wants us to believe it has "made the world a better place." Its Web site claims a long list of accomplishments, from mass immunizations to the rapid development of international law. But soon the U.N. must face up to the facts. The diplomats and bureaucrats have shirked their toughest duty of maintaining world security.
Nothing shows this better than the games playing out over Iraq.
Saddam Hussein's regime should be operating under the most intense scrutiny. Knowing Saddam likes to invade his neighbors, gas his own people and build weapons that murder by the thousands, the U.N. set resolutions after the Gulf War to keep him under control.
Yet that august organization neglected for four years to enforce the weapons inspections called for by its resolutions. Now, 11 years after the Gulf War, Saddam has the U.N. on a string.
Where has the U.N. been all this time? Always willing to talk but never willing to back its resolutions with the threat of force, the U.N. conveniently let Saddam slip down its priority list. The diplomats chatted at ...
- Gulf War Changed Middle Eastern Geopolitical Map
- Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition January 16, 1996 700+ words
00-00-0000 Before the Gulf War five years ago, an Israeli...forging economic changes in some Middle Eastern countries. BOB EDWARDS, Host...prompting the beginning of the Gulf War. The Gulf War has been compared to an earthquake...
- Repositioned Saudis, lower Gulf likely to retain price influence. (Saudi Arabia...
- Newspaper article from: The Oil Daily Mangan, David, Jr. May 13, 1991 700+ words
...by the regime there. Iran Question-Mark. Iran remains the major unknown as well as perhaps the biggest "winner" in the Gulf war's reshuffling of the Middle East deck. Iran emerged from the war with its facilities unscathed, its debt-load the same...
- Women and war; how 'power-over' politics silenced US congresswomen in the...
- Magazine article from: The Humanist Christiansen, Adrienne Elizabeth January 1, 1998 700+ words
...military force, and the Persian Gulf War ensued. One noteworthy aspect...the subject of the Persian Gulf War's possible effect on the...lengthy speeches on how a Persian Gulf War might affect Middle Eastern stability, U.S. military...
- Conflict resolution approaches: Western and Middle Eastern lessons and...
- Magazine article from: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology Abu-Nimer, Mohammed January 1, 1996 700+ words
...efforts to expose and train Middle Eastern academicians, professionals...more so since the 1990 Gulf war. American trainers travel to Middle Eastern and Eastern European countries...dispute resolution in a Middle Eastern context. These culturally...
- GULF WAR MISSILES TO BE EXHIBITED.(Local)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) August 2, 1991 700+ words
...less threatening than the ones that lit up Middle Eastern skies during the Persian Gulf war. As part of the Northeast Flight '91 Airshow...that was split in half during combat in the gulf war. The detonated missiles, about the size of...
- Merchants' war stories: some sales sag; others surge. (effect of Persian Gulf...
- Magazine article from: Crain's Cleveland Business Mooney, Barbara January 28, 1991 700+ words
...war stories: Some sales sag; others surge Sellers of Middle Eastern maps, short-wave radios and rosaries are doing land-office business in the early days of the Persian Gulf war. But the same can't be said for merchants such as Dave...
- Gulf War syndrome
- Newspaper article from: La Prensa de San Antonio Henry B. Gonzalez November 10, 1996 700+ words
...Antonio 11-10-1996 Gulf War syndrome. By Henry B...In the letter to the Gulf War soldiers, the Pentagon...disastrous effort to influence Middle Eastern affairs. The worst part...ailments associated with Gulf War Syndrome, they in themselves...
- The aftermath of Gulf War - prospects for Pakistani labour.
- Magazine article from: Economic Review Hussain, Nazir January 1, 1992 700+ words
...workers to the Middle Eastern countries had no...1980s. The recent Gulf War had some deliterious...The aftermath of Gulf War has in store a...outlook of the Middle Eastern countries and more...scenario. Pre-Gulf War Emigration Flows...
