Closing Time for the UN?

THE GULF WAR showed what the United Nations can do if skillfully handled. The aftermath of the battle showed what the UN can’t do, and why the time is ripe for a fundamental change. Such as putting something else in its place.

Having done his Hannibal act, with stunning success, General Norman Schwarzkopf wanted to win the war as well as the latter-day battle of Cannae. The issues are clear enough. Do the Allies merely defeat Hitler in battle? Or do they push on, as agreed at Yalta, and oblige him to take his own life in the Berlin bunker? Does the United States help the Hungarians in 1956, or does it encourage them to rise, then sit by while the Red Army massacres them?

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THE GULF WAR showed what the United Nations can do if skillfully handled. The aftermath of the battle showed what the UN can’t do, and why the time is ripe for a fundamental change. Such as putting something else in its place.

Having done his Hannibal act, with stunning success, General Norman Schwarzkopf wanted to win the war as well as the latter-day battle of Cannae. The issues are clear enough. Do the Allies merely defeat Hitler in battle? Or do they push on, as agreed at Yalta, and oblige him to take his own life in the Berlin bunker? Does the United States help the Hungarians in 1956, or does it encourage them to rise, then sit by while the Red Army massacres them?