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Article: IS THE UNITED NATIONS STILL RELEVANT?: NO: Inability to deal with Iraq shows U.N. might be on its way out
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- March 23, 2003
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FAIRFAX, Va. - The United Nations is in the process of making
itself irrelevant. It has spent the past 12 years drawing lines in
the sand and telling Iraq's Saddam Hussein that he had better not
cross them.
Each time, Saddam crossed the newly drawn line and laughed at the
United Nations. And each time, the United Nations drew a new line,
but did nothing about the previous violations.
The fact that the United Nations' credibility is now on life
support does not mean the U.N. has never accomplished anything or
that it cannot achieve something of value in the future. Reform is
always possible. The United Nations might be able to aid refugees or
help fight disease in the Third World. However, it ...