Chris
To be clear, nobody, including the UN itself, denied there was a failure, so you don't need to prove there was one.
The article you post mentions that Dutch peacekeepers were overrun. Yes, 110 Dutch peacekeepers were overrun. Presumably the US is going to keep only 110 troops in Baghdad until order is restored? If not, you have to ask why there were only 110 Dutch troops. Could it be because there were only 7400 troops for the whole peacekeeping effort? Do you think the US will keep only 7400 troops in Iraq until order is established? If not, why were there so few troops in the Balkans?
I'm asking where you think the UN failure lay. It sounds as if you are placing the failure at the door of the Security Council?
Any comment on my last point re the UN's need to get Security Council extensions for peacekeeping efforts, and how this was threatened by disagreements over the International Criminal Court?
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
