OK Lyle, so be it, then. Myself, I'd like to think that if hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake, that someone with the ability to do something actually does do something.

Another case in point is Rwanda. UN reps knew there would be mass bloodshed, but got no help from Kofi Annan, or anyone. As soon as the going got tough, the tough flew the coop. A measely little UN force with no power or authority to do anything was left behind. Of course there were some nations that did absolutely nothing. The US for example, because of the Somalia experience, did not want to get burned in Rwanda. As a result we had a slaughter with hundreds of thousands of casualties.

What good is the UN if it can't/wont respond to shit like this? I really had a poor view of the UN because of Rwanda. You also have a poor view of the UN, but for a different reason it seems.