a failed political entity since its inception. Its impressive history of failures – Eastern Europe 1945-89, Vietnam 1946-1973, Korea 1950-53- the present , Hungary 1956, Suez 1956 (something of a banner UN year), Tibet 1950, 1956-59- the present , Czechoslovakia 1968, Cambodia 1970, Iran 1979- the present , Srebrenica 1993, Rwanda