Jack from Bicton, as the League of Nations was a failure while too much pressed or steered by Pax Britannica so the UN has proven a democratic failure under the beck and call of Pax Americana.

It is so interesting that though the Vietnamese drove out the arrogant Americans by armoured force, Vietnam since has partly copied the West forming its own kind of democracy.

Yet despite this lesson, Bicton Jack, we still have much to learn, including sharing much of the present worldly blame, as so much pointed out by the young Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.

Certainly one does not have to be a dinkum Christian to try to live by it.

Regards, BB, WA.