UN to Write Damascus a Strongly-Worded Letter Following Attack on Inspectors - Polidicks

[QUOTE=BBC News][B]The UN is to complain to the Syrian government and rebels after a convoy of chemical weapons inspectors came under sniper fire.[/B] UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said he would ask the inspection team in Damascus to register "a strong complaint" so it never happened again. The team is looking at five sites near Damascus where hundreds are reported to have been killed last week. Russia has warned strongly against Western military action against Syria. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said any intervention in Syria without a UN mandate would be a "grave violation of international law". The West, he told a news conference in Moscow, had not been able to come up with any proof of chemical weapons use while "saying at the same time that the red line has been crossed and there can be no delay". He was responding to suggestions from some Western countries that military action against Syria could be taken without a UN mandate over the suspected use of chemical weapons by government forces. The UN Security Council is divided, with Russia and China opposing military intervention. UK Foreign Secretary William Hague told the BBC that action could be taken without UN approval if there was "great humanitarian need" in Syria. His French counterpart Laurent Fabius suggested the UN Security Council could be bypassed "in certain circumstances". Washington has recently bolstered its naval presence in the eastern Mediterranean, and military leaders from the US, UK and their allies are meeting in Jordan. President Obama suggested last year that the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government would be equivalent to crossing "a red line" which could trigger military action.[/QUOTE] Source: [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23843649"]BBC News[/URL]

BAD! Bad terrorists! How DARE you shoot at our inspectors!

Hopefully those stupid terrorists will get a papercut from the letter, that will show them.

Constant fighting, despite what Assad may say the suburbs of Damascus are hot as fuck so it really can't be blamed on anyone that much, bullets are going everywhere.

[QUOTE=dwt110;41975145]Hopefully those stupid terrorists will get a papercut from the letter, that will show them.[/QUOTE] Wow man, too far

heh, UN write letter that does nothing heh, i funni noaw??!

fuck the UN is looking more and more like the Legue of Nations every day thanks to Good'oll Pooty and Bejing

Really? That's ALL they do?

[QUOTE=ThatSprite;41975635]Really? That's ALL they do?[/QUOTE] That's all they can do. The idea of the UN is flawed to begin with. Every conflict they try to be involved in member states always have a conflict of interest going on so nothing ever gets done.

[QUOTE=ThatSprite;41975635]Really? That's ALL they do?[/QUOTE] what do you think they should do [editline]26th August 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Aman;41975651]That's all they can do. The idea of the UN is flawed to begin with. Every conflict they try to be involved in member states always have a conflict of interest going on so nothing ever gets done.[/QUOTE] this really isn't true

[QUOTE=Cloak Raider;41975673]this really isn't true[/QUOTE] He does [I]kinda[/I] have a point in that the limitless veto given to each of the five permanent members assures that if an issue is a subject of national interest that outweighs the base moral and legal obligations then a country is likely to veto action against that issue.

[QUOTE=DaysBefore;41975767]He does [I]kinda[/I] have a point in that the limitless veto given to each of the five permanent members assures that if an issue is a subject of national interest that outweighs the base moral and legal obligations then a country is likely to veto action against that issue.[/QUOTE] This is true, but I don't really see the blame being entirely placed on the UN It always makes me laugh when I see Americans complaining about the UN being 'powerless' and 'complaint-writing-bureaucrats' when the US is one of the countries responsible for retarding the UN massively. The same people complaining about the UN never intervening and not having boots on the ground are exactly the same people that would complain about the UN being 'world police' if they did

they seriously didn't expect this? assad uses chemical weapons "hey assad we're coming over to check if you did actually use them" "wow why are you shooting" "hey not cool man"

[QUOTE=ThatSprite;41975635]Really? That's ALL they do?[/QUOTE] You'd rather have a military police force that sweeps into any nation to gun down everyone until all the violence stops? Doesn't really work like that. The UN rarely applies force because it's usually too complicated to do anything besides condemning.

[URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1291402&p=41530734&highlight=#post41530734"]I tried to warn you.[/URL]

The U.N can be pretty weak when it comes war and conflict. I wouldn't say they're useless though because of that. They've done a lot of good combating poverty and disease in third world countries.

[video]http://youtube.com/watch?v=UIPSvIz9NDs[/video]

I'm fine with the UN being more of a humanitarian organization, the world isn't ready for a global government, we are still to diverse in our cultures and technological constructs.