Word: sovereigns
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Then there is the question itself. Quebeckers were asked the ponderous "Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign, after having made a formal offer to Canada for a new economic and political partnership, within the scope of the bill respecting the future of Quebec and of the agreement signed on June...
Congress also blames the U.N. for its sluggishness, both in reaching consensus and responding to crises. However, the enormity of the U.N.'s task is overwhelming: 185 sovereign nations do not always reach consensus. The important point is that the forum of the U.N. exists for nations to air their grievances. While nations zealously guard their own rights and retain authority over the U.N., the U.N. can hardly function with peak efficiency...
...kind. We should not abandon it because of petty administrative problems and thereby lose sight of its higher ideal of international peace. And until a Congress representing 50 states can run perfectly without wasteful spending and sluggishness, it can hardly expect perfection from a U.N. representing 185 sovereign nations...
...hostilities that the hundred-eyed Argus failed to prevent are too numerous to count. Many have fallen into the gray zone of civil war--a counterinsurgency or freedom fight, depending on who tells it, but in any case off limits to a Jesuitic fastidiousness against interfering in a sovereign state. This principle of inviolate borders underscores how much the U.N. was shaped by lessons of the 1930s: Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia, Japan's invasion of China and Hitler's devouring the appetizer of the Sudetenland. As generals tend to fight the last war, so the U.N.'s founders undertook...
Although the U.N. enshrined a roster of universal human rights in 1948, its rule of sovereign noninterference is upheld as sacrosanct by regimes whose behavior at home would not bear close scrutiny. Says Sir Anthony Parsons, British ambassador to the U.N. from 1979 to 1982: "The U.N. has been a disastrous failure there. It set the standards and adopted conventions on everything you can think of--torture, women, children, civil rights--but does nothing to enforce them...