WHAT IS OUR ROLE IN A NEW WORLD? One Fire Department In an Incendiary World ALL EDITIONS

Certainly no criteria or consensus can be found in the United Nations. No case can be made that the UN acted decisively to meet the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait; the gulf war turned the UN into a franchise operation that lent its name to an engagement the U.S. and its allies were already committed to ca...

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Published inNewsday
Main Author David Lange. David Lange is former prime minister of
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 25.10.1992
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Summary:Certainly no criteria or consensus can be found in the United Nations. No case can be made that the UN acted decisively to meet the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait; the gulf war turned the UN into a franchise operation that lent its name to an engagement the U.S. and its allies were already committed to carry out. Where the United States has no obvious interest, the UN finds itself at a loss. Its efforts in what was formerly Yugoslavia are increasingly futile. It is on the defensive in Somalia. It is floundering in Cambodia.