# UN approval for war

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-approval-for-war/166868>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 6, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-approval-for-war/166868 "2003-04-06T14:33:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-approval-for-war/166868/21 "2003-04-07T03:21:54Z")

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And France, of course, is remarkably prone to sending in troops whenever they are upset over events in one of their former colonies.

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**Author:** ![chula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@chula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chula)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-approval-for-war/166868/22 "2003-04-07T03:33:45Z")

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I meant to say that nearly all of those humanitarians interventions done under UN auspices had the approval of the countries involved.

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**Author:** ![CLedet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b487fb/32.png) [@CLedet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CLedet)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-approval-for-war/166868/23 "2003-04-07T03:33:51Z")

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chula, maybe you should try to get a “Fantasy” forum started.

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**Author:** ![chula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@chula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chula)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-approval-for-war/166868/24 "2003-04-07T04:23:09Z")

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> \*Originally posted by CLedet \*  
> \*\*chula, maybe you should try to get a “Fantasy” forum started. \*\*

Are you trying to say that something I wrote was wrong? If you’re going to participate in this thread, it would be nice if you actually attempted to add some information to what’s here.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-approval-for-war/166868/25 "2003-04-07T05:24:16Z")

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**chula** , if you meant to say “First World”, then that’s what you should have said. “First World” is clearly _not_ synonymous with “developed”, the USSR being the blatant counterexample. For that matter, it could still be argued that Iraq as of the invasion of Kuwait was “First World”: It certainly wasn’t Second, as that term refers only to countries which are or were communist.

And if you restrict your categorization too much, then you’ll end up with the United States being the only “developed” country at all. If that’s the case, then it’s trivial to say that the US is the only “developed” country to ever do such-and-such.

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