Will the UN get involved in Syria?

"It is an absolute scandal – and an affront to the people of Zimbabwe, who didn't vote for Mugabe as their president but had him imposed because he used violence and the armed forces to hang onto power in defiance of the democratic will of the people of Zimbabwe.

"For a man who has destroyed his country's infrastructure and cynically engineered hunger to be an 'ambassador' for tourism is disgraceful – particularly as he has been personally responsible for the downward spiral of the economy and destroyed the hotel, travel and tourism industry in the process."

It also needs to be remembered that it was UN observers who brought the full horrors of the Houla massacre to the World's attention.

At times Hawkeye, I think you're paid by these tyrannical regimes. A lot of what you're saying sounds just like the Syrian governments version of events, and entirely at odds with what the people on the ground are saying.

They all say that the killers had written a local Shia slogan on their foreheads as they went about their business, shooting and hacking the families of Houla to death. One man spoke for many when he said: “When this is over and this is settled and we are victorious, we will kill them. We will slaughter them and we will slaughter their children. We hate them.”

There is also agreement here that more bodies will be discovered. The UN commandeered a flatbed truck – they clearly believed it too. The problem, everybnody here says, is that the unrecovered bodies lie close to the Syrian army positions and nobody dares venture into the killing zone of Houla’s silent no-mans-land.
The burning question is this: if these militia were nothing to do with the government, as President Bashar al-Assad says, how is it 100 men were able to enter a zone where there had been intensive shelling, commit a massacre over several hours, and not be in danger from a single shell, rocket, or mortar

I have no idea what is going on in Syria, and I doubt very many non Syrians do. There is no way to know who is doing the killing, as it is just as likely to be opponents of the government as it is to be the government. Claims that it is the government are not worth spit at this point.

Iran confirmed Sunday that it has, as previously speculated, sent troops to aid President Bashar Assad's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in his country.

Iran confirmed Sunday that it has, as previously speculated, sent troops to aid President Bashar Assad's crackdown on Sunni agitators in his country.

It worked, because so many among us are unquestioning idiots, we will believe anything so long as it fits into our pre conceived ideas.

they hate the government/ they have been tricked/

BTW I dont feel that the UN observers have any credibility....the UN has already picked sides, you will not get any more impartiality from the UN than we get from the Iranians...

ditto about you. your attempts to get a2k members to provide input on how the UN can improve itself is an issue that will go nowhere fast.

BTW, 2 out of 5 is 40%. Their veto power is used often on US security council resolutions.

I have asked if the dissatisfied here would prefer some other body, or that no organization at all should replace the UN?
No response.

It's because you are asking questions to which nobody can answer. Any answer would be based on ignorance.

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Is the United Nations an effective organization for peacekeeping and peacemaking?
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No, they have not done a thing to stop genocide in the Sudan. The UN appoints Libya the head of Human Rights?
All the UN is good for is, demanding more money from the USA. Not to mention the "Oil For Food" Scandal.