Originally Posted by BMWFREAK

Roberto you are right in your assertion of the UN. Yesterday I watched a documentary about North Korea and how there was a journalist that was secretly reporting to the outside world how bad the condition was in NK. However, it got up to the point where he eventually was going to be caught because of all the NK spies around. So, he could not flee to South Korea because there were more spies there and he would risk being killed on the spot. Going to China wasn't a solution either because of China's support for North Korea. Eventually, he had no choice but to go to the UN. The UN, however, played politics with this man's life and said they would not give him asylum unless the US would take him in. Guess what the US said to him? They said they would not take him in unless he was giving asylum.

The North Korean journalist eventually gets asylum from the UN or the US, can't remember, but that comes after the airing of his program.

The point here is how at times the UN does do good, but I think they INDIRECTLY do more bad than they wish. They are beauracratically controlled so much that they literally serve no purpose unless the beauracrats suppor the country that is sufferring.

When I look at the news about Israel and Lebanon, the only thing I can wonder is how this is being permitted and how another country, lets say, Iran and Iraq or Iran and country X, would not be fighting for more than a day. What I am trying to say is that this is ridiculous and absurb how these two countries (primarily one) is attacking, bombing so many innocent people. What lesson is to be learned other than to stimulate more hatred for a country that is already hated in this region.

The US is playing with fire in my opinion, and have been, since the 60s.

As far as a solution....well...it is rather hard, and I know the difficulties of such a question. However, this war/battle/fight has been going on for centuries and will only continue. Children are born into families on both sides of the line that are raised to hate the enemy. This is a family hatred line that has been in place for many many years and will not just end at the families. The government intself has come about because of this fighting, especially Israel's. There will never really be peace I am afraid, because as long as there exists an issue over the land there will always be fighting. The only thing we can hope for is for another UN resolution or ATTEMPT like the one that happened in 1945 where they attempted to make Israel in two parts. On belonging to the jews and the other belonging to the muslims, christians, etc. There would be a middle ground that would belong to no one and that would be Jerusalem. However, both sides did not like this, or one of them didn't. Either way the point is that it failed.