Thought for the Day

[bcholmes]

United Nations personnel around the world are increasingly likely to be targets for attack because the organization is perceived by some as a tool of powerful members, rather than an unbiased advocate for all nations, Lakhdar Brahimi, a veteran diplomat who headed a global study on the security of United Nations staff members, said Monday.

The study, conducted by a seven-member panel that was organized after 17 United Nations workers were killed in a bombing in Algiers last December, concluded that neither individual staff members nor the organization had fully grasped the change in perceptions, Mr. Brahimi said.

— New York Times

Comments

[sarah-dragon.livejournal.com]

Again we see Red and Blue are the same. The attitude that the UN is a tool is widely held by many citizens OF the powerful members, all assuming the UN is someone else's pawn.

I mean I think it has outlived its usefulness and clearly the permanent members have a policy advantage but I fail to see how that surprises anyone. The problem is that the workers killed are often in country doing some good work that is not related to Neo-Colonialism.