Både ja og nei.
FN fungerer ikke / dårlig. Fair enough.
Samtidig er det – uansett hvor mye avsky / avmakt / avsmak man måtte kjenne på – en god idé å ha et forum hvor alle faktisk deltar.
Jeg sakser inn litt fra Reagan-biografien An American Life, her om tumultene etter øvelsen Able Archer 1983:
“Three years had taught me something surprising about the Russians: Many people at the top of the Soviet hierarchy were genuinely afraid of America and Americans. Perhaps this shouldn’t have surprised me, but it did … During my first years in Washington, I think many of us in the administration took it for granted that the Russians, like ourselves, considered it unthinkable that the United States would launch a first strike against them. But the more experience I had with Soviet leaders and other heads of state who knew them, the more I began to realize that many Soviet officials feared us not only as adversaries but as potential aggressors who might hurl nuclear weapons at them in a first strike … Well, if that was the case, I was even more anxious to get a top Soviet leader in a room alone and try to convince him we had no designs on the Soviet Union and Russians had nothing to fear from us.[69]”
FN må gjerne være failed, men det er (trolig) bedre enn ingen arena for forsøk på samhandling, eller hva man nå skal kalle det.
