The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.
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The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine. a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.
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You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
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