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Originally posted by BigDaveJr
I remember reading something that said one day UN forces would be sent into the United States if there is resistance to the New World Order. UN forces would have no problem firing on US civilians. What do Y'all think?
[edit on 16-9-2007 by BigDaveJr]
The United Nations was founded as a successor to the League of Nations, which was widely considered to have been ineffective in its role as an international governing body, in that it had been unable to prevent World War II. Some argue that the UN's major advantage over the League of Nations is its ability to maintain and deploy its member nations' armed forces as peace keepers. Others see such "peace keeping" as a euphemism for war and domination of weak and poor countries by the wealthy and powerful nations of the world.[5]
The term "United Nations" (which appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) was decided by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill[6] during World War II, to refer to the Allies. Its first formal use was in the 1 January 1942 Declaration by the United Nations, which committed the Allies to the principles of the Atlantic Charter and pledged them not to seek a separate peace with the Axis powers. Thereafter, the Allies used the term "United Nations Fighting Forces" to refer to their alliance.
The idea for the UN was espoused in declarations signed at the wartime Allied conferences in Moscow, Cairo, and Tehran in 1943 . From August to October 1944 , representatives of France, the Republic of China, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union met to elaborate the plans at the Dumbarton Oaks Estate in Washington, DC. Those and later talks produced proposals outlining the purposes of the organization, its membership and organs, and arrangements to maintain international peace and security and international economic and social cooperation.
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Originally posted by stumason
Ah, I assume your another American who thinks the UN has a standing Army and is some autonomous entity?
Originally posted by stumason
It makes me chuckle, the whole American anti-UN attitude... for crying out loud, it was you guy's who came up with the UN!
Originally posted by Johnmike
Look into all the things that it does - it's quite powerful. There have been several calls for a standing UN army, but hopefully those won't be answered.
Originally posted by Johnmike
Yeah, that was one big screwup on the part of the United States. It was pretty broken at that point in time, anyway. We still haven't fully recovered.