| Kofi Anan is int he position he's in because he's good at what the UN is supposed to do; of course he's going to be angry with America; the US went against the UN. It's just a matter of politics.
No nations is going to go in and single handedly deal with problems that don't have a link to them directly. Do you think France would be in the Cote d'Ivoire if there wasn't a large group of French Nationals there? You need a group like the UN to prompt countries to do things. The problem arrises when the UN gets into political squabbling and fails to realise Peace Keeping operations are rarely like the situation in the Golan Heights or that in Cyprus. Those days are gone; and the UN needs to realise it. That is why NATO has taken over a great deal of Peacekeeping operations. They understand the need for broad ROE's that allow soldiers to do their jobs.
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