I think it is not just the U.N. speaking, but the CONCEPT of a third party, a third party to a conflict speaking out. You KNOW, sometimes saying, 'Stop, this is enough. This cannot be allowed to happen,' gives the victims and the people who are caught in that SITUATION COURAGE, encouragement, support.
Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's SAY, over WESTERN Europe. You just can't USE them to deal with a situation like AFGHANISTAN.
I have a lot of DIFFERENT TRAITS to my PERSONALITY, depending on who I'm AROUND, and what the dynamic in the situation is.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, INTELLIGENCE, and LOVE, and the LORD of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every SITUATION.
A threatened NATION can REACT to uncertain DANGERS solely through administrative channels, to the truly EMBARRASSING situation of perhaps overreacting.