I'll admit I may not have paid much (any?) attention during school during most classes. Now that I'm old(er), and I WANT to know what the heck's going on, most of the articles I read are geared towards those that have a rudimentary understanding equal to a 10th grade education regarding these things. 10th grade was then I discovered boys and booze. Needless to say it was downhill after that.
Could someone give me the Cliff Notes/UN for Blondes/Reader's Digest Condensed Version of what the UN is, who started it, what it does, and what the future may or may not be for it?
From what I gather (and I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong), it's basically there to keep countries from going out and blowing each other up on their own. A "gentleman's agreement" before a war is started, so to speak. If I'm correct, and I'm sure if I am, I'm oversimplifying it, is it really anything more than a facade? What keeps a country from doing whatever it darned well pleases? Is it more of a "Time Out" corner for countries where they can present their cases and hopefully cool down before they nuke someone?
I'm a little confused as it LOOKS to the uneducated as huge cluster fuck........
03-16-2003
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