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It's funny how Saddam could be placed under UN sanctions resulting in the tremendous suffering of people who had done no wrong and yet Israel has never had to endure UN sanctions.
Miles, that statement is pretty indicative of why I think the UN is a sham. The US/China/Russia are going to vote against anything not in their own interests or even anything in favor of the other. They have no real authority or moral consistency to objectively say this is good, this is bad much less some false pretense of legality.
It is the closest we have to law. However, it is clearly open to abuse and needs reforming. As I say, China and Russia are on the whole pretty small fry abusers as compared to the US and its notorious veto on anything concerning Israel.

Where one resides is irrelevant to any argument. My nationality is likewise irrelevant. I don't give my country a free pass and neither the one where I live either. Anything goes with me, I speak it as I see. However, Korea is pretty dull politically. There are internal things of interest, but nobody on here would be interested. Property prices fell 4% last year. Captivating, I know. Things occasionally get more interesting when former Presidents jump off mountains or North Korea throws a wobbler, but certainly nothing on the scale of countries like America, Britain, or Israel which could really do with a few former leaders jumping off of mountains.
Where one resides has everything to do with it, I now understand and feel bad for you.
miles has 0 credibility in these debates because he stands for nothing. He lives in the haze of anarchy and academia where things look brilliant in practice but somehow never pan out in "the real world" but he of course pays that no mind at all. miles would like the world to end because humans are inherently evil is what it all boils down to. If there were only 2 people left on earth and one of them was miles, he'd be certain to destroy both humans thinking it would be better for the earth he's THAT delusional