The latest US push sets up a new confrontation at the Security Council, where European allies are resisting the so-called snapback sanctions in a last-ditch attempt to hold together the fraying 2015 accord.
What follows is unclear, even though certain is the continual wrangling among the western allies while exposing the feeble foundations on which the United Nations was built as a world peace broker.
We should not forget that the United Nations rose out of the ashes of the world’s most devastating, brutal conflict to have affected humankind – the Second World War and was meant to avert similar conflicts.
It has never succeeded in that because the machinery that oversees peace – its Security Council – is controlled by big powers who, as a matter of course, consider their own interests foremost.
So, while in the couple of months’ time the UN the world will mark 70 years of its existence the same world is littered with trouble spots where innocent people lose their lives unnecessarily.
To ensure a peaceful future in the world the UN has to agree to reforms that would give other nations more say in decision making over issues of war and peace. But each time the subject is brought up to the world body for discussion, big powers resist vehemently.
Even though peace also has its own shortcomings, the grim truth about war is that it always instils a horrible feeling to the victors – as it settles nothing – to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
But everyone will agree that peace is preferable to war. What many don’t realise is that war is also terrorism, contrary to what former US President George W. Bush and other western leaders would want the world to believe.
Consider this: If the aim of terrorists is to attain political goals through killing of innocent people, the same can be said of those who wage modern conventional wars against other countries in which bombings and air strikes also kill innocent people.
The only difference is perhaps that terrorists use methods which the West wants the world to believe as barbaric and uncivilised. Is there any courteousness in wars?
Sadly, still, the big, strong powers, to whom other weaker ones would look for guidance in averting conflicts, are not providing that guidance as sincerity would require. Instead they are always in the thick of it.
In fact, the whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
It’s a stark dilemma for mankind and provides valid depiction of what could be happening at the moment – the disappearance of a just world. It’s also a grim reminder that justice is inseparable to peace – as it is always its proud creation.
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