[stop_fascism]

Basically, Annan was saying that the UN is completely useless. He identified three problems about which the UN has done nothing. They're too busy swilling champaigne and eating lobster I suppose.

I've asked a few times, can anyone list one example of successful UN peace making or conflict resolution. So far, no one has come up with anything (perhaps this isn't the best forum for that question ;-).

[XBob]

It's not peace making, but it is peace keeping, and no one ever hears of it, but the UN does patrol and enforce a no-man's land border between Israel and Egypt in the Negev desert, and men from various countries are stationed there.

A few years back, I ran into a couple of soldiers who came into Cairo on R&R, and that's the only way I found out about it.