Un: Inffective, Corrupt, And Unfair
...immediately following the end of the Second World War. The creation of this organization promised a new era of peace and justice, a promise that its predecessor, the League of Nations failed to keep. However, despite the UN¡¯s attempt at delivering its intentions, the UN had in fact demonstrated itself to be an extremely ineffective organization. Its negligent attitude towards world conflicts, corruption within its members and workers, and a problem-filled administration restricts this organization from achieving its goals.
One of the UN¡¯s main goals is to ensure world peace and dissolve conflicts. However, in the last two decades they have failed to do exactly that. The struggle in Somalia was only one of the many conflicts the UN had failed to stop.
¡°Following the eruption and escalation of the civil war in Somalia in 1991, the UN and the Organization of African Unity strived to abate the suffering that was caused as a result of the high-intensity conflict.¡± (Wikipedia contributors, UNOSOM II)
The UN¡¯s response was to send relief supplies and peacekeeping troops to Somalia in order to restore the peace. However, despite the UN¡¯s attempt, warlords intercepted the supplies, proceeding to sell the goods on the black-market. The war-torn civilians themselves received little to nothing. Following the failure of this operation,
¡°The United States of America offered to establish a multinational force under its own leadership to secure the humanitarian operation. [¡]On 8 August 1993 Task Force Ranger was deployed; composed of Delta and Ranger forces not under UN control and so able to conduct more aggressive operations.¡± (Wikipedia contributors, UNOSOM II).
The US sent in its own special forces in an attempt to hunt down warlord Mohammad Aidid in the so-famed Battle of Mogadishu. The mission in the end resulted in a failure and Aidid was never...
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