# What would it take to get the UN on board?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-to-get-the-un-on-board/201877>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 16, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-to-get-the-un-on-board/201877 "2003-09-16T02:52:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-to-get-the-un-on-board/201877/21 "2003-09-16T20:19:03Z")

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> \*Originally posted by msmith537 \*  
> Why do we want to “run the show”? Because maybe we don’t want the UN to simply say “oh…ok…you’re in charge…you’re the new government in Iraq” to the first group that can amass enough power to threaten humanitarian operations.

Great! Wondeful! You want to run the show? You pay the bill then! It is the height of arrogance to expect others to pay for your imperialist campaigns.

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> That would be great to go through all that hard work just so we can end up right back where we started.

Right back where we started? Where was that exactly? You mean with Saddam Hussein 45 minutes away from threatening the entire western hemisphere with his arms of mass destruction? Or where the crime rate in Iraq was a fraction of what it is now? Where people there had electricity and running water? Where they had not been invaded and ocupied by a foreign army? Where many of those now dead were alive? Yes, I guess it would be rather awful to return to that, wouldn’t it?

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**Author:** ![T.Mehr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@T.Mehr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Mehr)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-to-get-the-un-on-board/201877/22 "2003-09-17T06:30:51Z")

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> \*Originally posted by **msmith537** \*That would be great to go through all that hard work just so we can end up right back where we started. \*\*

Just to add to **sailors** points. Actually also the US are in a much worse situation than before, not only the Iraqis. You just created a whole new breeding ground for terrorists - nicely equipped with the weapons of a dissapeared army.

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