The international community should renew the responsibility to protect and empower regional organizations to uphold it. Such would be a fitting remembrance of the Rwanda genocide.

We must deal with the world as it is and fashion solutions that protect innocents, promote justice and defend the shared values of liberal democracy. The UN has failed to do that for more than seven decades. Worse, it has hindered responsible powers from playing that legitimate and necessary role. Perhaps it’s time to try something new.

Generally, American presidents who try to work through the United Nations and want it to live up to its noble mission often become disappointed.

The United Nations has failed to do what it was created to do—“promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security.”

Discriminatory policies and negligence within the United Nations are aggravating a crisis among Christians in the Middle East.

We as Christians are called to remember that “if one member suffers, all suffer together,” so we cannot forget these Iraqi Christian refugees.