text: The UN is a nice idea - you know, a friendly little angel that watches over and makes sure everyone plays nice with each other - but in all the years the UN has been in existence it has failed to intervene because conflicts have either been deemed "domestic issues" (like civil wars/genocides) that they can't get involved with or they have failed to follow through on their own resolutions. It doesn't work because the system is bad and because different countries can block actions that don't suit their interests - for example the UN did nothing to stop the Cold War because both the US and Russia were a part of the decision-making team and couldn't pass resolutions over the other. The UN would work well in a perfect world - but if it were a perfect world we wouldn't need the UN. :)