UN Charter

Much of my annotations were questions or protests against the UN and/or the countries in it. I made a lot of marks about the Cold War, which was between two permanent council members, and the Vietnam war, which completely and entirely went against everything the UN seems to be for. I noticed that there was a lot about doing things for "the common good" and "international peace," which seemed pretty vague to me. I also though it was interesting how the UN agreed not to get involved with internal affairs of a country, seeing as that some of the members of the UN (cough, cough, America) love messing with other peoples' governments, and also that allowing genocides to go on within one country would be against the values of the UN. In general, the UN is a group of nations (mainly Allied countries form WWII) that agreed to all be for peace. Yippee. They don't give any methods of how they plan to achieve world peace, and as most of the permanent members are anti-communist countries, there is obviously a lot of bias in one direction. I mean, everyone is biased, but its hard to try to make everyone agree if the people in charge can only see one side of any problem.