U.N.'s demise could be the best result of an Iraqi war

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | 3/16/03 | Colin McNickle

[Jean S]

No matter how you might feel about going to war against Saddam

[SolutionsOnly]

The demise of the UN is OK with me. It has failed to live up to it's mission statement. Best that it gets out of the way and makes room for a workable model.

The basic concept of an Interntional forum is not a bad on. But the evidence shows that the UN is dysfunctional and corrupt beyond repair. Too many millions have died due as a result of UN ineptitude.

[redbaiter]

The UN will be like a Democrat voter: Dead or not, it will just keep on voting. The UN isn't going away. What can go away is our willingness to waste time on that gaggle of decrepit Eurosocialist has-beens, Earth-worshippers, Asian mafiosi and psychopathic African dictators.

[stilts]

The UN model has deteriorated into a joke. It's akin to putting mafia dons on the police commission and then trying to fight crime.

[templar]

Best that it gets out of the way and makes room for a workable model.

It's the workable one that will replace the UN that has me worried. It will have authority ofer US. The current one is just an expensive and inconvenient pain in the tail.

[SandRat]

U.N.'s demise could be the best result of an Iraqi war

Could be? Hells Bells it would be!

[SolutionsOnly]

In no way shape or form do I support a 'World Government' or surrender of our soveriegnty.

Part of the dysfunction of the current UN is the notion that it is somehow 'supreme'. It's totally dependent upon America doing the heavy lifting, and yet it bites the hand that feeds it. Screw that.

To me a workable model is a world body that helps facilitate humaitarian aid - and that's about all. Beyond that I don't see much that is 'workable'.

[Thom Pain]

"... UN is dysfunctional and corrupt..."

Does it not seem ludicrous that we have been asking Angola & Giuana for "permission" to defend ourselves????? I've re-read my copy of The Constitution & I cannot find any mention of Angola, Giuana, the U.N., nor North Spain (aka France).

[freekitty]

I am for the demise of the UN.

[SolutionsOnly]

Well the upside of failed security council vote is that we save BILLIONS in - what would you call them - financial incentives? aid-packages? Bribes?

Like I said - Dysfunctional AND corrupt.

[WOSG]

No matter how destructive and useless, the UN will not go away. It is the nature of bureaucratic institutions, they are as durable as crabgrass.

We should cut it off financially, and promise to give as much money to the UN as Cameroon, since our vote counts no more than that country's.

The best news is that the US people have been educated about the uselessness of the UN. It's been exposed and unmasked.

[Bob]

...the UN will not go away.

Why not? The League of Nations did.

If the US were to pull out of the UN and kick their sorry butts over to Switzerland, the UN would go the same way. It's become a useless (or worse) debating society that doesn't have the ba!!s to implement its own resolutions.

[Paleo Conservative]

Good Riddence!

[RightWingConspirator]

We should resign from the UN and then give the UN 24 hours to get out of the USA so we can level the building.

[hujan]

A great (but totally unrealistic) suggestion: have a national referendum to see whether the majority of American voters want to continue participating in the UN.

Make it simple,"Should we get out of the UN and get it the hell out of the USA ASAP? Yes or No"

Then start kicking their butts out (we already know the answer).