if we are looking for an example of the need for a strong and effective international body to say to the parties involved "enough is enough", the Middles East is definitely such an example. But we don't have such an international body. In implementing solutions to political problems, the UN is impotent and ineffective.
Future generations may look back and say our generation missed the opportunity many times to prevent the outbreak of the Great War nicknamed WW3 which decimated a great part of the world.
