Radical Action at the United Nations

Is there a tipping point in world affairs, and if so, have we reached it? The old saying was: “cheer up, things could be worse”, but could they? Could things be worse than they already are? In America and in the rest of the world, is this the way people will live in the future? If so, the whole educational curriculum, the way we train our children to cope with life, must be drastically changed. If not, what must be done and by whom to bring about whatever actions will effect basic improvements in the way civilization is supposed to work? For starters, go back to World War II when there was widespread agreement that the world really needed to do things differently. A movement emerged called “moral rearmament” which, as its name implied, showed how to live and govern on a high moral plane. The trouble was, not many people signed on. So we formed the United Nations. All the nations of the world joined and some remarkable work has been accomplished under the UN umbrella. The trouble here is:the UN has no teeth, no enforcement powers, and any one of the big nations in the Security Council can veto any action needed to settle any trouble anywhere.
Rogue nations now do as they please without suffering any consequences. If instead these rogue nations faced total banishment from the community of nations, would they change their ways? Banishment would mean no other UN member would have any trade, travel, or other business with that banished nation under penalty of similar banishment.
Imagine what could have been done by a strong UN police force comprised of trained personnel and equipment contributed by all the UN members in:
The Rwanda massacre, the coastal vole genocide (?), the Israel-Gaza conflict, Russia Ukraine, West Africa and the Sudan, Cyprus, ISIS, ISIL, Iran, Korea – North Korea, Vietnam – South Vietnam, high seas piracy, central American exodus, etc. there would be no need for armed troops to invade or occupy any errant country. Banishment would provide the necessary persuasion, such as China’s annexation of Tibet, Indonesia’s persecution of East Timor, Russians in Ukraine, North Korea and Iran’s nuclear armament, etc. Military force would only be necessary in situations like the “Jan Jaweed” massacres in Sudan, “BOKA HAROM” in West Africa, ISIS in the Middle East, and other outlawed groups or governments that terrorize their own innocent citizens. Any government could call on the UN for help, either to eliminate the internal terrorists or to mediate legitimate public unrest that threatens the peace, such as the Arab spring, Syria, Egypt, etc. As for America, the most powerful of the world’s nations, there is a legitimate expectation of a leadership role. However, except for the invasion by North Korea of South Korea, America has either ignored trouble or taken an ill-advised and destructive course: Vietnam and Iraq are the worst examples, of course. Now all the world is caught up in a boiling cauldron of trouble on almost every continent: Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Asia, you name it. And the UN is powerless to do anything to relieve the suffering of innocent people.
Regardless how these present crises are resolved (if ever), similar situations will keep cropping up again and again somewhere or other or everywhere. The world will stand by watching with much wringing of hands but no action. In the meantime, right now, if there is ever to be any hope for the generations to come, we must take action, Radical Action First, Obama must go to Russia, the sooner the better. He must sit down with Putin and acknowledge that our two countries, we who put down the Nazi menace together, are too important to the future well-being of the world to waste time trying to one-up each other. Together these two leaders must develop a plan for the revitalization of the UN:
First, eliminate veto power in the Security Council. All it does is obstruct progress.
Second, organize an international rapid reaction force to respond to uncontrolled banditry, genocide, state persecution of innocents, and protection of the UN’s humanitarian efforts.
If these two improvements can be accomplished, there is a chance that the founding principles of the UN can eventually be realized. However, don’t hold your breath. As long as the tea party is running the country, nothing constructive is ever going to happen, either here or at the UN. So, first things first: go to Russia, put the tea party in its place and then go to work on the UN’s enforcement capabilities. Until then, the militarists will continue to pile up the profits while the bad guys continue to pile up the bodies