Murmur:
> Why, and how, is the U.N. able to have, basically, its own
> standing army? How did the U.N. get so powerful? Does the
> United States actually pay its dues in Doug's world?
Well, it's kind of like this: the warriors were going to be a standing army anyway. The UN saw a good oportunity and provisionally funded us in response to a local emergency at the time. Well, we've been provisionally funded ever since, and since we're scrupulous about keeping our noses clean, and being impartial and rather politic when necessary (which is the hardest part), the whole thing has become institutionalized.
Isn't that how everything works at the UN? Some silly stopgap that eventually becomes a huge entity replete with it's own bureacracy. But the warriors are still nominally independant. If they tried to make us wear those dorky baby blue helmets, for example, we'd be so out of there.
Skitz
> Why, and how, is the U.N. able to have, basically, its own
> standing army? How did the U.N. get so powerful? Does the
> United States actually pay its dues in Doug's world?
Well, it's kind of like this: the warriors were going to be a standing army anyway. The UN saw a good oportunity and provisionally funded us in response to a local emergency at the time. Well, we've been provisionally funded ever since, and since we're scrupulous about keeping our noses clean, and being impartial and rather politic when necessary (which is the hardest part), the whole thing has become institutionalized.
Isn't that how everything works at the UN? Some silly stopgap that eventually becomes a huge entity replete with it's own bureacracy. But the warriors are still nominally independant. If they tried to make us wear those dorky baby blue helmets, for example, we'd be so out of there.
Skitz