The UN should have a Standing Military Force

Alright Emily here are the reasons why UN should have a standing army:1. It's not effective as it is "The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights." The UN websites states. [http://www.un.org...] The UN depends on other countries sending troops to help it. Yet, it takes a long time for the system and work, and by the time the soldiers are finally sent the conflict has probably gotten too big for the soldiers to work with. And even if that does not happen, most times the soldiers are sent from the countries that have th problem themselves. Thus the soldiers would mostly be not well enough equipped or trained (as they go away when the UN doesn't need them), in contrast to our permanently standing professional army. The following examples can be summarized by: these problems “over­whelmed the capabilities of the U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and other parts of the Secretariat like the Department of Manage­ment that have a role in supporting peace opera­tions, leading to mismanagement, misconduct, poor planning, corruption, sexual abuse, unclear mandates, and other weaknesses.” [ http://www.heritage.org...] So unlike these terrible soldiers who are forced by their country; our professional army will be manual volunteers who actually want to help the UN and are dedicated. This is far better than forcing some countries, when the UN is in time of need, to pull out soldiers to help peacekeeping--which could lead to disasterous resource lost that is highlighted in the case of Sierra Leone and India. [http://www.nytimes.com...]2.Faster solving As I previously touched on, the UN is too slow. I will provide actual examples here. One here is cited from an article concerning the failure of the UN to stop the killings in Cambodia."The international community’s failure to stop genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and to avert “ethnic cleansing” occurring in the Darfur region of Su­dan a decade later illustrate this incapacity, as do the other massive killings of civilians in Cambodia, the former Yugoslavia, East Timor, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, and elsewhere. In recent years, huge atrocities have killed millions of innocent people, wounded millions more, forced tens of millions from their homes, destroyed entire economies, and wasted hundreds of billions of dollars.” [www.globalactionpw.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/uneps_publication.pdf]What is especially sad is another quote..."[the UN is] the only fire brigade in the world that has to wait for the fire to break out before it can acquire a fire engine.” [http://refugeesinternational.org...]MONTHS of uniterrupted killings could be prevented... [http://www.un.org...].... SIX MONTHS to be precise.Another failure is the example of how UN only condemned terrorism and didn't take action until the 9/11 incident. And even then, they couldn't even find a clear definition of terrorism! [http://www.cnsnews.com...] We see here, UN has no real power, things take too long to work--the United Nations really needs its own permanent standing military force!A final example is the Srebrenica Massacre. Within this example, it is clearly shown with evidence that my assertions in argument number one were correct--these soldiers, neither permanent, nor belonging to the UN, cannot and will not prevent war and establish peace. [http://www.nytimes.com...] There are many, many more examples of the UN's failures, but I will stop here. I believe these examples have shown that the UN is ineffective with its needing of such voting power to acquire troops, which takes forever, and even then, the troops aren't well-trained or equipped to keep peace. If the UN wants to keep its name and its good purpose, it needs a standing military force, permanent, and good to fight. "Heheh, what do you mean I look like a citizen? I totally got your back!" "Step aside, trained professionals coming through!"Onto you Emily.