An interesting, forward-thinking editorial from the Wall Street Journal’s OpnionJournal called On Planet U.N. argues that the Security Council provides no security, and offers a view of how it all might work better.
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With the fall of the Berlin Wall, some of us argued that the Security Council might finally live up to its original postwar promise. We wrote hopefully about this at the time. And for one brief, shining moment after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, the world united behind U.S. leadership to push him back to Iraq. But soon enough the Security Council fell back on its Cold War habit of failing to act when the moment required it. Let’s call the dishonor roll:â€
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