The UN’s “Frothing of Words”

Winston Churchill warned about the potential for the United Nations to turn into “merely a frothing of words.” If Churchill had seen the UN in action these last several weeks trying to deal with crises in Syria and North Korea, he would have concluded that his warning was not heeded. Last December, the UN Security Council passed a resolution unanimously that was supposed to provide a road map for a peaceful solution of the 5 year-old Syrian war that has taken over 250,000 lives. It contained an ambitious timeline under which negotiations between selected opposition groups and Syrian government representatives were slated to begin in January, leading to the establishment of a transition government with full executive powers within 6 months. A year after that, under the terms of a newly drafted constitution to be negotiated, UN-supervised “free and fair” elections were to take place. There was also supposed to be a parallel UN-monitored ceasefire in Syria while the political talks were underway, except with respect to the ISIS-controlled territories where military efforts to degrade and destroy ISIS will continue.

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